# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:23:34.500Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Lev Davidovich Bronstein joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898, was arrested, exiled to Siberia, escaped to London in 1902 and met Lenin. He sided with the Mensheviks in the 1903 split but declared himself non-factional a year later. Chairman of the Saint Petersburg Soviet during the 1905 Revolution, he was exiled again, escaped in 1907, and lived abroad until the February Revolution brought him back. He joined the Bolsheviks, helped lead the October Revolution, negotiated Russia's exit from World War I as Commissar for Foreign Affairs, then served as Commissar for Military Affairs from 1918 to 1925 — building the Red Army and commanding it through the civil war. After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky led the Left Opposition and became Stalin's sharpest critic; he was expelled from the Politburo in 1926, the party in 1927, exiled to Alma Ata in 1928, and deported in 1929. He moved through Turkey, France, and Norway before settling in Mexico in 1937, writing against Stalinism, arguing for permanent revolution and proletarian internationalism, calling the Soviet Union a "degenerated workers' state" in The Revolution Betrayed, and founding the Fou