WebLeon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein to David Leontyevich Bronstein (1847–1922) and Anna Lvovna (née Zhivotovskaya, 1850–1910) on 7 November 1879, the fifth child of a wealthy Jewish landowner family in Yanovka, Kherson governorate, Russian Empire (now Bereslavka, Ukraine).His father, David Leontyevich, had lived in Poltava, …

Web03/11/2022 · Leon Trotsky, byname of Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, (born November 7 [October 26, Old Style], 1879, Yanovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died August 21, 1940, Coyoacán, Mexico), 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 …

Web30/11/2021 · Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in Yanovka, Ukraine — in the Russian Empire — on November 7, 1879. His parents, David and Anna Bronstein, were prosperous Jewish farmers. When he ...

WebExile and assassination of Leon Trotsky. In January 1928 Trotsky and his principal followers were exiled to remote parts of the Soviet Union, Trotsky himself being assigned to Alma-Ata (now Almaty) in Central Asia. In January 1929 Trotsky was banished from the territory of the Soviet Union. He was initially received by the government of Turkey ...

Web08/05/2021 · 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). Exiled from the Soviet Union after …

WebLeon Trotsky was one of the founders of the Soviet Union and an obvious candidate to replace Lenin after his death. Unfortunately for him, it was Joseph Stalin who came to power, and Trotsky went into a long forced exile that eventually took him to Mexico, where he found asylum. On August 20, 1940, a Stalinist agent wounded Trotsky in the head …

WebLeon Trotsky, born Lev Bronstein, was a Marxist writer, orator and organiser became a significant leader in the Bolshevik party and the Soviet republic. 2. At the Second Congress of the Social Democrats in 1903, Trotsky sided with the Mensheviks against Lenin, though he later sought to reconcile the two factions. 3. In 1917, Trotsky returned from exile in …

WebOne of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old. Leon Trotsky. Things In Life, Realization, Life Is. 56 Copy quote. When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack. Leon Trotsky. Running, Howl, Packs. 35 Copy quote. He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

Web21/08/2018 · The first major attack on his life came on May 24, 1940, when assassins machine-gunned his home, wounding Trotsky’s 14-year-old grandson and abducting a young bodyguard who was later murdered ...

WebLev Davidovich Bronstein (November 7, 1879 – August 20, 1940), revolutionary leader. He was born in Yakovka, Ukraine. Better known as Lyev Trotsky or Leon Trotsky. His first stage was spent in a family of Jewish landowners in Russia. His mother was a lover of books and knowledge, so he subscribed to a library, in order to share reading time ...