who was trotsky?

Answer 1

Leon Davidovich Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also a founding member of the Politburo.

Following a power struggle with Joseph Stalin in the 1920s, Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union. He was eventually assassinated in Mexico by Ramón Mercader, a Soviet agent, with an ice axe. Trotsky's ideas form the basis of Trotskyism, his variation of Communist theory, and Trotskyism remains a major school of Marxist thought that is opposed to the theories of Stalinism and Maoism.

Answer 2

Leon Trotsky was Lenin's Number One Guy, and the first commander of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. He and Stalin had a fierce rivalry for control of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union when Lenin's health began to fail. The Stalinists won and millions died.

Trotsky fled the country and ended up in Mexico, where Stalin's agents assassinated him in 1940 -- ice-axe to the head.

Answer 3

Just to add to what the last two answers touched on, Trosky became a powerful symbol for Stalin in the years after his rise to power. Stalin was very distrusting - which is one of the reasons he was so successful - but it went as far as suspecting friends of being "Trotskyists" years after his exile, and years after his death. Many historians consider Trotsky to be the true image of the Soviet Union as he was Lenin's own choice for the job. Stalin was a brutal man who, owing to very shrewd manoevering placed himself at the top of the USSR.

Answer 4

Trotsky was a Communist revolutionary in Russia.

Answer 5

He played a pretty big part in the Russian Revolution. The one where Lenin took over and established communism. He was a Bolshevik (with Lenin).