Who was Leon Trotsky and what became of him?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary and politician. He played a significant role in the Bolshevik Revolution and later served as the founder and commander of the Red Army. However, after a power struggle with Joseph Stalin, Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and exiled from the Soviet Union. He lived in various countries before ultimately being assassinated in Mexico in 1940.