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1879 - 1940

Leon Trotsky

AKA Lev Bronstein

Prominent Bolshevik revolutionary, political theorist and politician.

Developer of “Trotskyism”, a variation of Marxism.

Fun Fact:

After being purged from the Soviet leadership and Communist Party by Stalin, Trotsky spent the rest of his life in exile, where he advocated a new “Fourth International” revolutionary organization in opposition to Stalin’s Comintern.

In 1940, he was killed with an ice ax by an assassin in Mexico.

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Sources:

Leon Trotsky - Wikipedia

"Leon Trotsky" - Jewish Virtual Library

"Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico" - History.com