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He never ruled anything. He was a high ranking member of the Bolshevik leadership after the 1917 October Revolution, and was instrumental in the eventual Communist victory in the Civil War. But once Lenin died and Stalin started consolidating power, Trotsky was forced to go into exile. He was murdered in 1940 while in exile in Mexico.

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