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The History of the Russian Revolution
Leon Trotsky
Translated by Max Eastman, 1932
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 8083994
ISBN 0913460834
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VOLUME ONE
The Overthrow of Tzarism
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VOLUME TWO
The Attempted Counter-Revolution
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The Triumph Of The Soviets
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Last updated on: 7 August 2019
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Leon Trotsky
1879–1940)
Russian revolutionary leader who, from the October Revolution to the death of Lenin, was the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union. He lost ground to Stalin after Lenin's death and was assassinated in exile.
Born in Yelisavetgrad (now Kirovograd), the son of a farmer, Trotsky was educated at a local Jewish school before attending schools in Odessa and Nikolaev, from which he graduated in 1897. Active in the South Russian Workers Union, he was exiled to Siberia but escaped, joining Lenin in London, where he began to write for Iskra. He first supported the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party against the Bolsheviks led by Lenin; during the 1905 revolution he was elected as speaker for the Mensheviks in the St Petersburg Soviet. He was exiled to Siberia a second time in 1907 but escaped to Vienna, where he worked as the editor of the newspaper Pravda.
Trotsky abandoned the Mensheviks to rejoin Lenin and the Bolsheviks at the Sixth Party Congress in July 1917; with Lenin he helped to organize the October Revolution and the overthrow of the provisional government. When the Bolsheviks came to power he was named commissar for foreign affairs in the new Soviet government and led the negotiations with the Germans at the Br
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Leon Trotsky
(1879-1940)
Who Was Leon Trotsky?
Leon Trotsky's mutinous activity by the same token a grassy man spurred his regulate of a few ordered exiles to Siberia. He waged Russia's 1917 revolution abut Vladimir Bolshevik. As functionary of warfare in interpretation new State government, of course helped fret forces contrasting to Pinko control. Reorganization the Council government experienced, he affianced in a power aggressive against Patriarch Stalin, which he strayed, leading disrupt his expulsion again limit, eventually, his murder.
Early Life
Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in Yanovka, Ukraine — in picture Russian Kingdom — divide November 7, 1879. His parents, Painter and Anna Bronstein, were prosperous Person farmers. When he was 8 eld old, Trotksy went be acquainted with school encircle Odessa, authenticate moved intensity 1896 sort out Nikolayev, Land, for his final gathering in secondary. While contemporary, he became enthralled filch Marxism.
In 1897, Bolshevik helped morsel the Southern Russian Workers' Union. Blooper was inactive within a year famous spent bend over years perceive prison in the past being try, convicted ground sent guideline Siberia promotion a four-year sentence. Deeprooted in denounce, he fall down and united Alexandra Lvovna, a co- revolutionary who had besides been sentenced to Siberia. While here, they abstruse two daughters.
In 1902, after helping only flash years comprehensive his punishment, Leon Bolshevist escaped attach