Leo Trotsky
| Leon Trotsky | |
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Trotsky in 1921
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| People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Soviet Union | |
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In office 13 March 1918 – 15 January 1925 |
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| Premier |
Vladimir Lenin Alexei Rykov |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Podvoisky |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Frunze |
| People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR | |
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In office 8 November 1917 – 13 March 1918 |
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| Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | Mikhail Tereshchenko |
| Succeeded by | Georgy Chicherin |
| President of the Petrograd Soviet | |
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In office 8 October – 8 November 1917 |
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| Full member of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th Politburo | |
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In office 10 October 1917 – 23 October 1926 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Lev Davidovich Bronstein 7 November 1879 near Yelizavetgrad, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) |
| Died | 21 August 1940 (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 |
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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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