1929
Leon Trotsky wrote his version of the 1905 Russian Revolution in exile in Siberia.
Lenin may have chosen to exile Leon Trotsky due to political differences and power struggles within the Bolshevik party. Trotsky's popularity and influence posed a threat to Lenin's leadership, leading to his expulsion in order to maintain control and unity within the party.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Joseph Stalin's rival for control of the Soviet Union was Leon Trotsky. Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 and over the next 5 years Stalin would kill or otherwise remove all of his political opponents and rivals and exile Trotsky. He eventually had Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City in 1940.
In his home (the "little fortress") in Coyoacan (in Mexico City) in August of 1940.
Writing in exile, Leon Trotsky believed that the new Soviet government was an oligarchy with Stalin in control of it. From Trotsky's point of view, the Soviet oligarchy had all the vices of the previous one under the Czar. He even went so far as saying that the old oligarchy under the Czar had a view of the future. For Trotsky, the new Soviet bureaucrats even lacked that.
Leon Trotsky's real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein. He was born on November 7, 1879, in what is now Ukraine. Trotsky was a key figure in the Russian Revolution and a prominent Marxist theorist, known for his role in the establishment of the Soviet state and his opposition to Joseph Stalin. He adopted the name "Trotsky" while in exile, which became his revolutionary pseudonym.
Leon Trotsky died on August 21, 1940 at the age of 60.
Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
Leon Trotsky built the Red Army into an efficient military organization.