Trotsky was first associated with the Menshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, then the Bolshevik Party and lastly the Communist Party.
Leon Trotsky was a good leader of the revolution.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Leon Trotsky was not apart of the October Revolution. However he lead the Red Army in the November Revolution as a part of the Bolshevik Party.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky created his own fraction in the CPSU(B) (wich was not allowed) and broke with everything the party stood for so he was gotten rid of.
Leon Trotsky died on August 21, 1940 at the age of 60.
Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky built the Red Army into an efficient military organization.
After spending imprisonment in Siberia, Leon Trotsky was allowed to live, by Stalin. Trotsky began his exile in Turkey in Alam Ata.
Leon Trotsky believed that the German workers were not fairly represented by the German Communist Party. He attributed this to the Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union. This double problem helped to install Hitler and the fascist Nazi Party to power.
The main persons vying for power were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. There were others, such as Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin, but the first battle was between Trotsky and Stalin. Lenin favored Trotsky over Stalin, but Stalin was too entrenched in the Communist Party for Trotsky to win that struggle.