{"id":221613,"date":"2022-11-07T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=221613"},"modified":"2022-10-07T08:34:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T07:34:43","slug":"leon-trotsky-7-nov-1879-21-aug-1940-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/11\/leon-trotsky-7-nov-1879-21-aug-1940-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 \u2013 21 Aug 1940)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leon Trotsky,<\/strong>\u00a0by name of Lev Davidovich Bronshtein\u00a0 \u00a0(born November 7 [October 26, Old Style], 1879,\u00a0Yanovka, Ukraine<\/a>, Russian Empire\u2014died August 21, 1940,\u00a0Coyoac\u00e1n, Mexico),\u00a0communist<\/a> theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia\u2019s October Revolution<\/a> in 1917, and later commissar of foreign affairs and of war in the Soviet Union (1917\u201324). In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin<\/a>\u2019s death, however, Joseph Stalin<\/a> emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Leon Trotsky.
George Grantham Bain Collection\/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-28899)<\/p><\/div>\n

Early life, education, and revolutionary career<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trotsky\u2019s father, David Bronshtein, was a farmer of Russified Jewish background who had settled as a colonist in the steppe region, and his mother, Anna, was of the educated middle class. He had an older brother and sister; two other siblings died in infancy. At the age of eight, he was sent to school in Odessa, where he spent eight years with the family of his mother\u2019s nephew, a liberal intellectual. When he moved to Nikolayev in 1896 to complete his schooling, he was drawn into an underground socialist circle and introduced to Marxism<\/a>. After briefly attending the University of Odessa, he returned to Nikolayev to help organize the underground South Russian Workers\u2019 Union.<\/p>\n

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