Leon Trotsky

Birthday: November 7th, 1879 Date of Death: August 21st, 1940 Place of Birth: Ianovka, Ukraine

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, politician, journalist and political theorist. He was a central figure in the establishment of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. Ideologically a Marxist, Trotsky's writings and thought inspired a major school of the ideology known as Trotskyism.

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