Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary at first allied with the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party. He later changed his alliance and went over to Lenin and the Bolsheviks. During the October Revolution, Trotsky was considered Lenin's right hand man. During the Russian Civil War Trotsky became Commissar of War and organized the Red Army, which then defeated the opposing White Russian forces.
Trotsky was Lenin's choice to succeed him, but Joseph Stalin and others in the Bolshevik/Communist Party plotted against Trotsky, had him expelled from the Party, exiled from the country and assassinated in Mexico by Stalin's henchmen in 1940.
The name Trotsky, or Trotskii, was the name of one of Leon Trotsky's prison guards when he was imprisoned in Odessa. It became a pen name, among others, in place of his birth name Lev Davidovitch Bronstein.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
Trotsky was killed by a Russian agent named Ramon Mercader.
Leon Trotsky was born in a town called Yanivka or Yanovka. It was part of the Russian Empire at that time but is now part of Ukraine.
Leon Trotsky was the first leader of the Red Army. He joined the Bolsheviks before and soon after became one of their leaders.
The name Trotsky, or Trotskii, was the name of one of Leon Trotsky's prison guards when he was imprisoned in Odessa. It became a pen name, among others, in place of his birth name Lev Davidovitch Bronstein.
Leon Trotsky was murdered in 1940.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky died on August 21, 1940 at the age of 60.
Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
After spending imprisonment in Siberia, Leon Trotsky was allowed to live, by Stalin. Trotsky began his exile in Turkey in Alam Ata.
Leon Trotsky built the Red Army into an efficient military organization.
After Vladimir Lenin died, Stalin's rivals for power were Leon Trotsky, Grigori Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin.
Leon Trotsky was one of the Communist leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He died in 1924.
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Bolshevik revolutionary leader was Leon Trotsky