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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky
Lev Trotsky.jpg
Trotsky in 1921
People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Soviet Union
In office
13 March 1918 – 15 January 1925
Premier Vladimir Lenin
Alexei Rykov
Preceded by Nikolai Podvoisky
Succeeded by Mikhail Frunze
People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR
In office
8 November 1917 – 13 March 1918
Premier Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by Mikhail Tereshchenko
Succeeded by Georgy Chicherin
President of the Petrograd Soviet
In office
8 October – 8 November 1917
Full member of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th Politburo
In office
10 October 1917 – 23 October 1926
Personal details
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein
(1879-11-07)7 November 1879
near Yelizavetgrad, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine)
Died 21 August 1940(1940-08-21) (aged 60)
Coyoacán, Federal District, Mexico
Cause of death Assassination
Citizenship Soviet
Political party RSDLP
SDPS
Mezhraiontsy
CPSU
Fourth International
Spouse(s) Aleksandra Sokolovskaya
Natalia Sedova
Children Zinaida Volkova
Nina Nevelson
Lev Sedov
Sergei Sedov
Signature

Leon Trotsky (/ˈtrɒtski/;Russian: Лев Дави́дович Тро́цкий; pronounced [ˈlʲɛf ˈtrotskʲɪj]; born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Marxist revolutionary and theorist, a Soviet politician who engineered the transfer of all political power to the Soviets with the October Revolution of 1917, and the founding leader of the Red Army.

Trotsky initially supported the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He joined the Bolsheviks just before the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Communist Party. He was, alongside Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Stalin, Sokolnikov and Bubnov, one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution. During the early days of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army, with the title of People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918–1923).


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