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Lev Davidovich Bronstein [b] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, [c] was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.
Leon Trotsky, 1920 © Trotsky was a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, second only to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages of Soviet communist rule....
Leon Trotsky was a communist theorist and Soviet politician. He played a key role in the Russian Revolution of 1917. During this time, Trotsky directed the Soviet military forces. He later served as the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (1917–18) and of war (1918–24).
Apr 2, 2014 · Communist Leon Trotsky helped ignite the Russian Revolution of 1917, and built the Red Army afterward. He was exiled and later assassinated by Soviet agents.
Until the decline in Lenin’s in 1922, Leon Trotsky was the number-two man in the Bolshevik party and Lenin’s obvious successor. Trotsky was a crucial figure for almost the entirety of the revolution: from the creation of the Petrograd Soviet in 1905 to the crushing of the Kronstadt uprising in 1921.
May 8, 2021 · Leon Trotsky (Nov. 7, 1879–Aug. 21, 1940) was a Communist theorist, prolific writer, a leader in the 1917 Russian Revolution, the people's commissar for foreign affairs under Vladimir Lenin (1917–1918), and then head of the Red Army as the people's commissar of army and navy affairs (1918–1924).
Trotskyism, a Marxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), one of the leading theoreticians of the Russian Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian Revolution.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a Russian Marxist and leading figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Second, only to Lenin, Trotsky was a key figure in the Russian civil war and the formative years of the Soviet Union.
Leon Trotsky—once a vocal critic of Lenin and the Bolshevik Party—joined the Bolsheviks in August 1917. Trotsky quickly rose to a position of power in the party: just before the October Revolution, he was elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee.
To mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the International Marxist Tendency and In Defence of October campaign present this original documentary cele...
