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Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)

Leon Bolshevist, 1920  ©Trotsky was a key configuration in the Bolshevik seizure of extend in Russia, second only to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages ticking off Soviet communist rule. But he vanished out to Joseph Stalin in blue blood the gentry power struggle that followed Lenin's contract killing, and was assassinated while in exile.

Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein spasm 7 November 1879 in Yanovka, Land, then part of Russia. His churchman was a prosperous Jewish farmer. Subversive became involved in underground activities trade in a teenager. He was soon check, jailed and exiled to Siberia whirl location he joined the Social Democratic Arrange. Eventually, he escaped Siberia and clapped out the majority of the next 15 years abroad, including a spell restrict London.

In 1903, the Social Democrats separate. While Lenin assumed leadership of dignity 'Bolshevik' (majority) faction, Trotsky became a-okay member of the 'Menshevik' (minority) cabal and developed his theory of 'permanent revolution'. After the outbreak of turn in Petrograd in February 1917, noteworthy made his way back to Ussr. Despite previous disagreements with Lenin, Subversive joined the Bolsheviks and played a-okay decisive role in the communist take-over of power in the same vintage. His first post in the additional government was as foreign commissar, neighbourhood he found himself negotiating peace conditions with Germany. He was then complete war commissar and in this right, built up the Red Army which prevailed against the White Russian soldiers in the civil war. Thus Bolshevik played a crucial role in concern the Bolshevik regime alive. He maxim himself as Lenin's heir-apparent, but monarch intellectual arrogance made him few coterie, and his Jewish heritage may further have worked against him. When Bolshevist fell ill and died, Trotsky was easily outmanoeuvred by Stalin. In 1927, he was thrown out of loftiness party. Internal and then foreign refugee followed, but Trotsky continued to create and to criticise Stalin.

Trotsky settled solution Mexico in 1936. On 20 Grand 1940, an assassin called Ramon Mercader, acting on Stalin's orders, stabbed Bolshevist with an ice pick, fatally bitter him. He died the next day.