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Leon Trotsky

Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879-1940) · Mexico · Activists · Died at 60 · also Russia

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He built the Red Army, stood second only to Lenin in the early Soviet state, then lost a brutal power struggle to Stalin - who had him hunted across three continents and killed with an ice axe in Mexico City.

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1941StalinBook published after his death, biography of Josef Stalin by Leon Trotsky1940Died21 August 19401925“During his illness, Lenin repeatedly addressed letters and proposals to the leading bodies and congresses of the party.”In their words1 July 1925Letter on Max Eastman's Book (1 July 1925)

1924“Leninism is warlike from head to foot. War is impossible without cunning, without subterfuge. without deception of the enemy.”In their wordsThe New Course (1924)

“Leninism is orthodox, obdurate, irreducible, but it does not contain so much as a hint of formalism, canon, not bureaucratism. In the struggle, it takes the bull by the horns.”In their wordsThe New Course (1924).

“The dialectics of history have already hooked him and will raise him up.”In their wordsStatement of 1924 on Joseph Stalin's growing powerbase, in Stalin, An Appraisal Of The Man And His Influence (1966); also in Stalin's

1923People's Commissar for Military and Naval AffairsOffice1923-19251921“Capital was really safer in Russia than anywhere else. ... No true Marxist would allow sentiment to interfere with business.”In their wordsDuring a 1921 meeting with American businessman Armand Hammer, as quoted in Hammer: Witness to History by Hammer and Neil Lyndon (1988), p.

1918People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSROffice1918-19231917Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central CommitteeOffice1917-1926Member of the Russian Constituent AssemblyOffice1917-19181901“As long as I breathe I hope.”In their words"On Optimism and Pessimism, on the Twentieth Century, and on Many Other Things" (1901), as quoted in The Prophet Armed : Trotsky, 1879-1921

1879Born26 October 1879

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Trotsky in 1888Trotsky in 1888Trotsky in 1897Trotsky in 1897Trotsky's first wife Aleksandra Sokolovskaya (centre) with her brother (left), Trotsky (right), and Dr G. A. Ziv (bottom) in 1897Trotsky's first wife Aleksandra Sokolovskaya (centre) with her brother (left), Trotsky (right), and Dr G. A. Ziv (bottom) in 1897Trotsky in 1902Trotsky in 1902

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  1. During his illness, Lenin repeatedly addressed letters and proposals to the leading bodies and congresses of the party.

    Jul 1, 1925, Letter on Max Eastman's Book (1 July 1925), Own words

  2. Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

    1924, Literature and Revolution (1924), Own words

  3. Leninism is warlike from head to foot. War is impossible without cunning, without subterfuge. without deception of the enemy.

    1924, The New Course (1924), Own words

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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

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Mexico
Category
Activists
Type
Activist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1879 to 1940 · aged 60

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