LEON TROTSKY

Annette MiramontesPeriod 1

Leon Trotsky was born to a Jewish family with the name of

Lev Davidovich Bronstein.

Bronstein was sent to jail for revolutionary activity as a

teenager

In order to escape, he uses a fake passport bearing the name of one of his jailers: Leon Trotsky

He used that pseudonym ever since.

A Young Revolutionar

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First Exile

After escaping from jail, he fled to London where he met Vladimir Lenin.

He and Lenin became colleagues and good friends

When he returned to Russia, Leon Trotsky originally sided with the Mensheviks, one of two political parties from the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split; the other

being the Bolsheviks.

Trotsky switched sides to join the Bolsheviks because he

didn’t agree with the Mensheviks anymore, and w1s welcomed to the Bolsheviks.

Trotsky and Lenin worked to thegethor and they created plans for revolution in their

near future.

BECOMING A LEADER

Permanent Revolution Leon Trotsky created his

theory because there was a need to know which class

would have to lead the upcoming Russian .

Trotsky’s theory based on his understanding of

Marxism. Many people believed it to

be too daring too claim. Twelve years later, history

proved his theory to be true.

CREATION OF THE RED ARMY

• The Bolsheviks had Leon Trotsky organize an army, called the Red Army, which consisted of mainly the working class

• The Red Army fought against the White Army-the Mensheviks, monarchists, militarists, and, briefly, foreign

nations –in the Russian Civil War.

o Played a major role in the Russian civil war in

controlling the Red Army.

o Because of his natural leadership capabilities, he contributed to the

Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War.

Continual Exile and Opposing Stalin

After Lenin’s death caused by a series of strokes, Trotsky and Joseph Stalin fought to be his

successor.

Stalin won and ousted Trotsky from Russia.

Joseph Stalin

Trotsky’s Assassination Leon Trotsky was assassinated by one

of Joseph Stalin's agents by an ice axe driven through his

skull.

Trotsky had been in Mexico because he

was exiled from multiple countries

and few were reliable.

He died by the very thing he tried so hard to put into

government.

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