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Yes but not exactly. The "war" quote is actually a paraphrase.

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Who was commissar of war for the Red army?

leon trotsky


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Lenin was leader of Bolsheviks and Trotsky was second in command until Lenin died in 1924. Lenin had appointed Trotsky People's Commissar for External Affairs after the October Revolution. Then, when the Russian Civil War broke out, Lenin appointed him Commissar of War. Lenin had picked Trotsky over Stalin to succed him but Trotsky lost out to Stalin and others for the right to succeed Lenin. Stalin managed to expel Trotsky from the Communist Party and then from the country. In 1940, Stalin had a Russian agent murder Trotsky.


Who did trotsky lead?

Trotsky led the Bolshevik/Communist Red Army forces in the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution of 1917.


Who said War is the locomotive of change and where did they say it?

Leon Lev Trotsky. He actually said "war, Comrades, is a great locomotive of history". Dec 28,1922 Source: Report on the Communist International


Leon trotsky accused Joseph Stalin of being a what?

Leon Trotsky accused Joseph Stalin of being a tyrant and demanded democracy. Although Lenin wanted Trotsky to assume leadership after his death, Stalin's supporters out-maneuvered Trotsky. Stalin suppressed Lenin's will and manipulated Trotsky out of his post of Commissioner of War as well as out of the Politburo.


Was Leon Trotsky the reason why the Bolsheviks won the Russian civil war?

Leon Trotsky was a large reason why they won the civil war, becaue he was the Commissar of War and the one who organized the Red Army into a coherent military force. He was certainly not the only reason though, since a large part of the Russian populace supported the Bolsheviks and the Red Army against the White forces.


How important was trotsky in the red ultimately winning the Russian civil war?

Trotsky lead the Red Army. So, he could be given most of the credit for winning.


How does leon trotsky get around russia during the civil war?

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What effect would World War 2 have on the Soviet Union according to the beliefs of Leon Trotsky?

Writing from exile, Trotsky believed that World War Two would be the causal factor for a true workers' revolution in the USSR. The Stalinist bureaucracy would crumble under the pressure of the war and a true Soviet "democracy" , in a Trotsky meaning of "democracy" would emerge with the fall of Stalin.


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Did Leon Trotsky hate militarism?

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How was Leon Trotsky involved in World War 2?

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