Trotsky biography
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Leon Trotsky
Soviet legislator and insurrectionary (–)
"Trotsky" redirects here. Receive other uses, see Bolshevist (disambiguation).
In that name put off follows East Slavic identification customs, interpretation patronymic decay Davidovich and say publicly family name is Bronstein.
Leon Trotsky | |
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Trotsky perform | |
| In office 14 Parade &#;– 12 Jan | |
| Premier | |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Podvoisky |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Frunze |
| In office 8 Nov &#;– 13 Pace | |
| Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Georgy Chicherin |
| In office 20 September &#;– 26 December | |
| Preceded by | Nikolay Chkheidze |
| Succeeded by | Grigory Zinoviev |
| Born | Lev Davidovich Bronstein ()7 November (N.S.) Yanovka, Russian Empire |
| Died | 21 August () (aged&#;60) Mexico Power, Mexico |
| Manner&#;of&#;death | Assassination |
| Resting place | Leon Trotsky Do Museum, Mexico City, Mexico |
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Lev Davidovich Bronstein • Leon Trotsky, ©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. But he lost out to Joseph Stalin in the power struggle that followed Lenin's death, and was assassinated while in exile. Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November in Yanovka, Ukraine, then part of Russia. His father was a prosperous Jewish farmer. Trotsky became involved in underground activities as a teenager. He was soon arrested, jailed and exiled to Siberia where he joined the Social Democratic Party. Eventually, he escaped Siberia and spent the majority of the next 15 years abroad, including a spell in London. In , the Social Democrats split. While Lenin assumed leadership of the 'Bolshevik' (majority) faction, Trotsky became a member of the 'Menshevik' (minority) faction and developed his theory of 'permanent revolution'. After the outbreak of revolution in Petrograd in February , he made his way back to Russia. Despite previous disagreements with Lenin, Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks and played a decisive role in the communist take-over of power in the same year. His first post in the new government was as foreign commissar, where he found himself negotiating peace term • By Joshua Rubenstein “Exemplary” —The Jewish Advocate Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler’s triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, “Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary
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