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who did Leon Trotsky tie up with? during Starlin time?

2007-08-26 09:35:47 · 2 answers · asked by edward_church2000 2 in Politics & Government Politics

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There are many answers to your questions on Wikipedia.

2007-08-26 12:42:31 · answer #1 · answered by Granny Gruntz 3 · 0 0

Trotsky was a Russian Communist revolutionary, one of the principal leaders in the establishment of the USSR; his original name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein. He was born of Jewish parents in the Ukraine. His father, a prosperous farmer, sent him to Odessa, where he became an outstanding student in a German secondary school. He became a populist, and began to be attracted to Marxism in late 1896. In 1898 he was arrested for the first of many times. Exiled to Siberia in 1900, he escaped in 1902, using a forged passport under the name of Trotsky, the head jailer of the Odessa prison in which he had earlier been held.

Returning to Russia in 1905, Trotsky became chairman of the short-lived St. Petersburg soviet and was arrested during its last meeting. While in prison, he developed his theory of permanent revolution; he declared that in Russia a bourgeois and a socialist revolution would be combined and that a proletarian revolution would then spread throughout the world. Banished again to Siberia, he escaped to Vienna, where he worked as a journalist. At the outbreak of World War I, he went to Switzerland and then to Paris, where he was active in pacifist and radical propaganda. Expelled from France, he moved to New York City, where he edited a paper with Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin and Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai. He returned to Russia after the overthrow of Nicholas II, and, by July, 1917, was a member of the Bolshevik party, taking part with Lenin in the unsuccessful Bolshevik uprising of that month. He was imprisoned by the Aleksandr Kerensky government but was released in September. He was one of the chief organizers of the October Revolution, which brought the Bolsheviks to power.

Trotsky became the people's commissar for foreign affairs under Lenin.

2007-08-26 15:09:19 · answer #2 · answered by gldjns 7 · 0 0

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