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Leon Trotsky
Trotsky, Leon
Trotsky, Leon (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein) (1879–1940) Russian revolutionary. Joining the Bolsheviks in 1917, he helped to organize the October Revolution with Lenin, and built up the Red Army that eventually defeated the White Russian forces in the Russian Civil War. After Lenin's death he alienated Stalin and others with his view that socialism within the Soviet Union could not come about until revolution had occurred in western Europe and worldwide. Trotsky was eventually defeated by Stalin in the struggle for power, being expelled from the party in 1927 and exiled in 1929. After settling in Mexico in 1937, he was murdered three years later by a Stalinist assassin.
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Trotsky redux. (Leon Trotsky)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 9/3/1990; ; 700+ words
; TROTSKY REDUX LEV DAVIDOVICH BRONSTEIN, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, was assassinated 50 years ago--on...joined in the Aberdeen discussion of "Leon Trotsky After Fifty Years." It seems clear...
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Leon Trotsky and 1905: Ian Thatcher refuses to take Trotsky at his own valuation.(The Unpredictable Past)
Magazine article from: History Review; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...marked an important turning-point in Leon Trotsky's life. It was precisely in 1905 that, as Trotsky himself stated, he first advanced the...not enough, 1905 was a notable event in Trotsky's life for other reasons. It offered...
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Icepick used to kill Leon Trotsky resurfaces after six decades in Mexico
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/11/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has resurfaced after being lost...who is shopping it around, and Trotsky's descendants, who want it donated...certainly doesn't belong to Mr. Leon Trotsky." _____ Trotsky Museum in...
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Icepick used to kill Leon Trotsky allegedly resurfaces after six decades in Mexico
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/11/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has allegedly resurfaced after...who is shopping it around, and Trotsky's descendants, who want it donated...worth. Just a few blocks away, Trotsky's grandson, who keeps the revolutionary...
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COMMENT: Would a Home Secretary today refuse sanctuary to Leon Trotsky?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/6/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...behalf of another politician with blood on his hands, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's titanic struggle with Stalin following the death...should recant publicly at the next Party Conference. Trotsky told Stalin: "The First Secretary is applying for...
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The Secret Life of Leon Trotsky.(baseball career)
Magazine article from: Nine; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...hidden life as improbable as that of Leon Trotsky. For all we have come to know...at the sport was none other than Leon Trotsky, who first starred on his school...soul had better learn lapta." Leon Trotsky was born as Lev (Leib) Davidovich...
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An essential read for those tackling the compelling life and times of Leon Trotsky
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 8/6/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotskyby Bertrand M Patenaude Faber...people think of in connection with Leon Trotsky is not his theory of permanent revolution...Joseph Stalin. The book describes Trotsky's last years in Mexican exile from...
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Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Nemesis The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky Bertrand M. Patenaude Faber &...Stalin, rather than the charismatic Trotsky, had inherited the mantle and power...of Marxist theory and polemics, Trotsky was a babe in arms compared with...
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Stalin's Nemesis: the Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 6/22/2009; ; 442 words
; Stalin's Nemesis: the Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky, Bertrand M Patenaude Faber 8c Faber, 352pp, 20 As an intellectual, orator and internationalist, Leon Trotsky was superior to all his Russian contemporaries. As...
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Revolutionary Thinker; Leon Trotsky's Great-Granddaughter Is Following Her Own Path to Greatness
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/21/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...granddaughter of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Being the descendant of somebody...with hardly a thought about what Leon Trotsky could or could not have done for...political and spiritual blanks. Leon Trotsky, in death as in life, was an...
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Trotsky, Leon
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Trotsky, Leon 1879-1940 Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Trotskii [Bronshtein]) was a leading Russian...left. SEE ALSO ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Day, Richard B. 1973. Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation . Cambridge, U.K...
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Trotsky, Leon Davidovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
TROTSKY, LEON DAVIDOVICH (1879 – 1940), number-two leader of the Bolshevik...wing Menshevik after his leading role in the Revolution of 1905, Leon Trotsky (n é Lev Bronstein) joined the Bolsheviks in 1917, became Vladimir...
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Leon Trotsky
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Leon Trotsky The Russian revolutionist Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a principal leader in the founding of...he organized the Red Army during the ensuing civil war. Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein near Elisavetgrad (later...
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Trotsky, Leon (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
Trotsky, Leon (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) (1879–1940) A Bolshevik revolutionary leader, Foreign Minister, and Commissar of War...
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Left Opposition
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
LEFT OPPOSITION Headed by Leon Trotsky, the Left Opposition (1923...Central Asia. In February 1929 Trotsky was deported from the country...See also: right opposition; trotsky, leon david-ovich; united opposition...
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