Lev Davidovich Bronstein[b] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, [c] was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.

Mar 27, 2025 · Leon Trotsky (born November 7 [October 26, Old Style], 1879, Yanovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died August 21, 1940, Coyoacán, Mexico) was a communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia’s October Revolution in 1917, and later commissar of foreign affairs and of war in the Soviet Union (1917–24).

Apr 2, 2014 · Leon Trotsky's revolutionary activity as a young man spurred his first of several ordered exiles to Siberia. He waged Russia's 1917 revolution alongside Vladimir Lenin. As commissar of war...

Leon Trotsky, 1920 © 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...

Feb 20, 2019 · A timeline of the life of Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, a Marxist member of the Communist party in Russia at the time of the Revolution

Jan 13, 2025 · Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on November 7, 1879, in Ukraine, was a pivotal figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. As a young man, Trotsky became deeply involved in Marxist politics, leading to his repeated arrests and exiles from Russia.

May 8, 2021 · Leon Trotsky (Nov. 7, 1879–Aug. 21, 1940) was a Communist theorist, prolific writer, a leader in the 1917 Russian Revolution, the people's commissar for foreign affairs under Vladimir Lenin (1917–1918), and then head of the Red Army as the people's commissar of army and navy affairs (1918–1924).

Jul 1, 2004 · Trotsky took a leading part in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and also in many other political and military upheavals, from the Balkans to China, and was perhaps the most prescient...

Nov 21, 2014 · Leader, with V.I. Lenin, of the Russian Revolution. Architect of the Red Army. Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs 1917–1918 and Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs 1918–1924. In 1929, he was expelled from the Communist Party by the Stalinist faction of the Party and then deported from the USSR.

He was a Russian revolutionary and political theoretician of Jewish - Ukrainian descent. [1] . After leading the Red Army in the Russian Civil War, he disagreed with other Bolsheviks,. had to leave Russia, and was later killed under Stalin 's orders. Trotsky was a socialist and a Marxist.