2007-10-03 16:50:03 · 5 answers · asked by death note rocks 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
A great communist leader who got screwed over by stalin also known in some circles as snowball the pig
2007-10-03 16:57:30 · answer #1 · answered by Charliemoo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trotsky played a prominent role in the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Between February and October 1917 he rose to a prominent position in the Petrograd Soviet. (Sometime over the course of the year he joined the Bolsheviks. Prior to then he had lead a much smaller revolutionary party)
After the soviets (democratic councils of workers, soldiers and peasants formed after the monarchy was deposed in February) overthrew the Provisional Government, Trotsky held many positions in the new government.
Most importantly he was the leader of the Red Army in the Civil War. He successfully defended the revolution from coalitions of monarchists, large landowners, capitalists, anarchists, and several foreign governments.
When Stalin and the beaureaucratic caste became entrenched, Trotsky was forced into exile after taking a position contrary to Stalin as to the proper course action.
Trotsky expulsion from the Communist Party directly resulted in the founding of the Fourth International and the splitting of Communist parties around the world. (In the US, a group that would eventually become the Socialist Workers Party split from the Communist Party.)
Trotsky was very influential among a large number of parties and individual activist around the world.
You can read most of his important writings at: www.marxists.org
He was a prolific writer, and was nicknamed "The Pen" by some.
2007-10-04 10:53:07 · answer #2 · answered by coolrockboy380 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leon Trotsky (real name Bronstein) was one of the architects of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917.
He was the Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the Council Of Peoples Commissars.
After Stalin obtained supreme power he had to flee for his life and was eventually murdered in Mexico in the 1930s by a Soviet agent with an ice pick.
2007-10-04 01:49:33 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one of an unlucky looser, who's an idol for idealists since then. Noone can ever say for sure, if he had done better than Stalin. But at least, both helped stabalizing the revolution until the death of Lenin.
2007-10-04 01:03:02 · answer #4 · answered by Jerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A little grave marker in Mexico.
2007-10-04 00:11:12 · answer #5 · answered by Major Bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋