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  Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) was born in Yanovka, Ukraine, as the son of an illiterate Jewish farmer.
Trotsky regarded the dictatorship he and Lenin had established as justified because it was exercised in the interest of the proletariat, and so it was quite different from Stalin's dictatorship, because the latter acted only in its own interests.
Trotsky argued from his experience in 1905 that Russian bourgeois was too weak to carry through the coming revolution which would have to be taken over by the proletariat.
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  Leon Trotsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trotsky's ideas form the basis of the Communist theory of Trotskyism, and Trotskyism remains a major school of Communist thought distinct from the theories of Marxist politics espoused by, for example, Stalin or Mao Zedong.
Trotsky was the head of the Soviet delegation during the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk between December 22, 1917 and February 10, 1918.
Trotsky's conception of Permanent Revolution is based on his understanding, drawing on the work of the founder of Russian Marxism Georgy Plekhanov, that in 'backward' countries the tasks of the Bourgeois Democratic Revolution could not be achieved by the bourgeoisie itself.
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 Leon Trotsky - Anarchopedia
Leon Davidovich Trotsky (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий;; also transliterated Trotskii, Trotski, Trotzky) (October 26 (O.S. November 07 (N.S. August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist intellectual.
Trotsky was actively involved in efforts to overthrow the Provisional Government headed by Aleksandr Kerensky and was Chair of the Revolutionary Military Committee that planned and implemented the October Revolution.
Trotsky argued that the Soviet state had become a degenerated workers' state controlled by an undemocratic bureaucracy, which would eventually either be overthrown via a second proletarian socialist revolution or degenerate to the point where it reverts to capitalism (as it has today).
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 Leon Trotsky - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Trotsky's ideas form the basis of the Communist theory of Trotskyism, and Trotskyism remains a major school of Communist thought distinct from the theories of Marxism espoused by Stalin or Mao Zedong.
Trotsky was able to suppress the contents of the letter in 1921 to avoid embarrassment, but once he started losing power in the early 1920s, the letter was made public by his opponents within the Communist Party in 1924 and used to paint him as Lenin's enemy.
Trotsky was arrested on August 7, 1917 (New Style) after an unsuccessful pro-Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, but was released 40 days later in the aftermath of the failed counter-revolutionary uprising by Kornilov.
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 Leon Trotsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet due to his opposition to Josef Stalin 's policies and power consolidation and was murdered in Mexico by a Soviet agent.
Trotsky was actively involved in to overthrow the Provisional Government headed by Aleksandr Kerensky and was Chair of the Revolutionary Committee that planned and implemented the October Revolution.
Trotsky was never formally rehabilitated by the government despite the Glasnost -era rehabilitation of most other Old Bolsheviks killed by Stalin during the Great Purges.
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 Leon Trotsky - Simple English Wikipedia
Trotsky helped organize a committee of workers in St Petersburg which was called the Soviet.
When the leader of the Soviet was arrested, Trotsky became leader of the Soviet in his place.
He had to leave Russia because of Joseph Stalin, who was his political enemy and he wanted to harm Trotsky.
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 Leon Trotsky
Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union due to his opposition to Josef Stalin's policies and power consolidation, and was later murdered in Mexico by a Soviet agent.
Trotsky was actively involved in efforts to overthrow the Provisional Government headed by Aleksandr Kerensky and was Chair of the Revolutionary Military Committee that planned and implemented the October Revolution.
Trotsky was never formally rehabilitated by the Soviet government, despite the Glasnost-era rehabilitation of most other Old Bolsheviks killed by Stalin during the Great Purges.
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 The Assasination of Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, revolutionary Marxist and, alongside Lenin, one of the most outstanding leaders of the 1905 revolution and the October revolution in Russia, fell victim to an assassination expressly ordered by Joseph Stalin.
Leon Trotsky was not the sort of man to die peacefully in bed of old age.
The brilliant revolutionary career of Leon Trotsky - in preparing the revolution and in carrying it out; in later defending it against its enemies and usurpers - was at all times based on Marxism, providing irrefutable proof of its vitality and truthfulness right down to the present day.
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 Leon Trotsky information - Search.com
Trotsky was able to suppress the contents of the letter in 1921 to avoid embarrassment, but once he started losing power in the early 1920s, the letter was made public by his opponents within the Communist Party in 1924 and used to paint him as Lenin's enemy.
Trotsky's house in Coyoacán was preserved in much the same condition as it was on the day of the assassination and is now a museum run by a board of intellectuals, including his grandson Esteban Volkov.
Trotsky's conception of Permanent Revolution is based on his understanding, drawing on the work of the founder of Russian Marxism Georgy Plekhanov, that in 'backward' countries the tasks of the Bourgeois Democratic Revolution could not be achieved by the bourgeoisie itself.
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 Leon Trotsky - Wikipedia
Leon Davidovich Trotsky (bahasa Rusia: Лев Давидович Троцкий; transliterasi: Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij dan Trotzky; 7 November 1879 – 21 Ogos 1940) yang dilahirkan dengan nama Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн) ialah seorang revolusioner Bolshevik, serta ahli teori Marxisme.
Idea-idea Trotsky merupakan dasar Trotskyisme yang masih merupakan salah satu aliran fikiran utama dalam pemikiran Marxisme yang bertentangan dengan Stalinisme dan Maoisme secara teori.
Trotsky dilahirkan di Yanovka, Provinsi Kherson, Ukraine yang merupakan sebuah desa kecil, 15 kilometer daripada pejabat pos yang terdekat.
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 In Memory of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky himself explains: “In the revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, the direct objective tasks of which are also bourgeois, there emerges as a near prospect the inevitable, or at least the probable, political domination of the proletariat.
Leon Trotsky, after having been denied the right to asylum by all the countries of Europe, was in Mexico where he organised an international protest campaign against the Moscow trials.
Trotsky was a threat to the Bureaucracy because he remained as a witness and a reminder of the genuine democratic and internationalist traditions of Bolshevism.
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 Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) was born on October 26, 1879, son of a hard-working, thrifty, and well-to-do jewish farmer, in the southern part of Ukraine.
Trotsky and Lenin, as intellectuals, had much respect for each other, however, in 1903 at the Second Congress of the RSDLP, the Bolsheviks were led by Lenin, while Trotsky was among the Menshevik leaders.
In 1917, as the Tsar abdicated, Leon Trotsky went to Russia, and in August that year he became a member of the Central Committe of the Bolshevik Party, which had Lenin as its uncontested leader and visionary.
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 LibriVox » From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon D. Trotsky
This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out of the First World War.
The treaty exacted heavy losses for Russia in terms of annexations of land and financial indemnities to Germany.
In this extended essay, Trotsky argues the reasons as to why he decided to sign what appears to be a disastrous agreement for Russia.
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 PWHCE Who's Who of Russia: Biography of Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky was a brilliant marxist theoretician and orator who nevertheless was a poor personal politician and was consequently easily made the scapegoat in Stalin's purges.
After Trotsky's fall and expulsion from the Soviet Union, Stalin made him the primary scapegoat in the purges which followed.
Trotsky's name and picture were removed from publications and monuments throughout Russia.
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Leon Davidovich Trotsky (Bronstein) is one of the most contradictory characters in the history of Russian and international revolution movement-he was well known as a loyal leader of the masses and the Party, but on the other hand, his own ambitions often conflicted with interests of the Party members and other Communist leaders.
Leon Trotsky co-piloted the Russian Revolution, alongside Lenin, and many saw him as the certain heir to the Bolshevik throne.
This paper will cover both Trotsky and the various reasons why he suffered the fate that he did.
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 Thesis on Leon Trotsky
Lunacharsky: Lev Davidovich Trotsky, 1923 Wolfenstein, E. Victor.
The Revolutionary Personality: Lenin, Trotsky, Gandhi, by E. Victor Wolfenstein.
Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, translated and edited by Harold Shukman.
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 Leon Davidovich Trotsky exiled Russian revolutionary has been fatally wounded in Mexico Ci
Leon Davidovich Trotsky exiled Russian revolutionary has been fatally wounded in Mexico Ci brainhop
Leon Davidovich Trotsky exiled Russian revolutionary has been
fatally wounded in Mexico City by assassin Ramon Mercaders who took an ice-ax and drove it into Trotskys head.
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