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 Leon Trotsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The court found everybody guilty and sentenced the defendants to death, Trotsky in absentia.
Trotsky temporarily joined the Mezhraiontsy, a regional social democratic organization in St. Petersburg, and became one of its leaders.
Leon Trotsky with his daughter Nina in France, 1915
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 Leon Trotsky
Trotsky, as Commissar of War, was appointed its leader.
The new prime minister, Alexander Kerensky, now realized that Trotsky was a major threat to his government and had him arrested.
When Trotsky was eight years old his father sent him to Odessa to be educated.
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 Leon Trotsky
In 1917, as the Tsar abdicated, Leon Trotsky went to Russia, and in August that year he became a member of the Central Committe of the Bolshevik Party, which had Lenin as its uncontested leader and visionary.
Trotsky and Lenin, as intellectuals, had much respect for each other, however, in 1903 at the Second Congress of the RSDLP, the Bolsheviks were led by Lenin, while Trotsky was among the Menshevik leaders.
That year Trotsky escaped Siberia, and at the Fifth Party Congress in London he met Stalin for the first time.
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 Forty years Since Leon Trotsky’s Assassination
Trotsky was well aware that the death penalty pronounced against him was far from being a platonic sentence.
Eventually, in 1933, Trotsky was admitted to France.
This year is the fortieth anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky.
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 Leon Trotsky
According to the New York police, who monitored Trotsky's activities, his main associates during this period were Emma Goldman and Alexander Berman.
But in a stunning reversal of "how things are supposed to be", the American President Woodrow Wilson intervened with the British and Trotsky was allowed to continue on his way, since he had the advantage of an American passport.
His true name was Levi Davidovich Bronstein, and he was born in 1879 into a wealthy family of Jewish landowners in southern Ukraine.
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 Leon Trotsky - Wikiquote
After Lenin's death, Trotsky was exiled for his opposition to Josef Stalin's policies.
Leon Trotsky[Лев Давидович Троцкий; born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; Лев Давидович Бронштейн] (26 October O.S. 7 November) 1879 - 21 August 1940) Russian Marxist, intellectual, and revolutionary.
Criticism of Trotsky by the Maoist International Movement
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 Leon Trotsky
From 1925 to 1926 Trotsky held relatively minor administrative post, before he was ousted from the party by Stalin.
After a short stay in the United States as the editor of Novy Mir, Trotsky returned to Russia in 1917.
In 1896 Trotsky joined the Social Democrats and two years later he was arrested as a Marxist and exiled to Siberia.
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 Leon Trotsky Museum
A Jew born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Trotsky spoke nine different languages, and was the Soviet Union's first Foreign Minister, till he fell out of favour with his government.
His daughter committed suicide, his relatives were interned, and his colleagues were purged from the Politburo.
I wondered if old Leon would be turning in his grave if he knew his residence was being used to exhibit such rubbish; he is, after all, buried in the garden, the next part of the museum that you came to.
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 Trotsky, Leon on Encyclopedia.com
Trotsky was expelled from the politburo in 1926 and from the party in 1927.
Trotsky was born of Jewish parents in the S Ukraine.
As a result of the tenth party congress (1921), at which the trade-union issues were debated, Stalin was named (1922) general secretary of the party.
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 THE LEON TROTSKY MUSEUM - MURDER AND MARXISM IN MEXICO CITY - BY JOHN MITCHELL in the MEXICO CONNECT MAGAZINE
After his operation, he fell into a coma and died peacefully the next night (August 21, 1940) with Natalia by his bedside.
Joseph Stalin had expelled Trotsky from Russia in 1929 for relentless criticism of his dictatorial regime and its corruption of Marxist ideals.
While Trotsky was poring over his article, the visitor removed an alpine climbing axe from his overcoat and sank it into the great thinker's skull.
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 Leon Trotsky
Trotsky participated in the abortive revolution of 1905.
Revolutionary Leon Trotsky was arrested and sent to Siberia at the age of 19 for being a member of a Marxist group.
In 1917 he returned to Russia with Lenin to lead the revolution.
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 leon trotsky: a brief biography
Leon Trotsky was born in 1879 in what was then the Russian Empire.
In 1917, he would again be elected head of the Soviet, and after joining the Bolshevik Party, together with V.I. Lenin Trotsky led the October Revolution which resulted in the world’s first workers’ state.
In 1938 Trotsky and his supporters founded the Fourth International - an international party of socialist revolution which still exists.
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 Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism
This article also talks about the "-ism" in Trotskyism.
Comrade Trotsky on the Labor Party Question, on "Thermidor", and other questions.
A Strategy of Action and Not of Speculation - Letter to Pekin Friends, by Leon Trotsky
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 Trotsky.net
Huge numbers of his supporters inside the Soviet Union ended up in Stalin's camps from which they were never to return.
Trotsky played a leading role, together with Lenin, during the 1917 Russian Revolution.
It was Trotsky who organised the Red Army as well as the fightback against all the forces of reaction that were attempting to strangle the revolution in blood.
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 WSWS : History : Leon Trotsky
Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky's legacy and his place in the history of the 20th century
The contemporary significance of Leon Trotsky's life and work
The significance of Leon Trotsky's thought for Africa today
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 NMWA Private Collection Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky
In it, Kahlo dedicates the self-portrait to Leon Trotsky, "with all [her] love."1 Kahlo presented this painting to the Russian revolutionary leader as a gift, presumably a memento of the brief love affair they had shortly after his arrival in Mexico.
After nine years of exile, in January 1937 Trotsky and his wife found asylum in Mexico, thanks to Rivera's help.
They lived in Kahlo's house for two years, before Trotsky was assassinated by a Stalinist agent.
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 Leon Trotsky
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 Leon Trotsky's Biography Page
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