LEON TROTSKY

One of the leaders of the Russian Revolution, "a true revolutionary leader, Lenin′s right hand and sworn enemy of Stalin, Leon Trotsky (born Leib Davidovich Bronstein) was one of the most powerful and hated politicians in modern history.

Founding the newspaper "Pravda" 1, Trotsky provided to a large extent the intellectual base of the rebellion, although he later came to Bolshevism. He pointed to Lenin how to use the elected councils to consolidate power. Trotsky was one of the organizers of an armed coup by which overthrew the Provisional Government of Kerensky and installed power of the Communists. Was the People′s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic. Trotsky was in fact created the Red Army and used it for the brutal suppression of mass civil unrest engulfed Russia after the revolution.

When no longer needed in his ability to lead a violent revolution and to wage civil war, Trotsky was not in a position to become the "apparatchik" or bureaucrat young Soviet state.

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Being overly vain and arrogant, Trotsky had neither the political art of Lenin, or Stalin′s cunning. In the days of slow fading of Lenin, Trotsky openly longed for all sorts of party meetings, until Stalin slowly build its own power. Underestimation Trotsky Stalin and his proud refusal of the political struggle led to the fall and expulsion from the USSR in 1929

In the 1930′s. Stalin purged the party of almost all its founding fathers, organized show trials and executions. In 1940, Stalin′s secret agents tried to kill Trotsky in the attack on his fortified like a fortress, a house in Mexico City using machine guns and grenades, but failed. Soon NKVD agent Ramon Mercader, went down in the confidence of Trotsky, has an audience with the revolutionary and smashed his skull with an ice pick. The next day Trotsky died.

Wicked irony is that Trotsky hated in himself a Jew. Many famous revolutionaries of the time were Jews.

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These revolutionary leaders, Rosa Luxemburg in Germany and Bela Kun in Hungary, were "non-Jewish" Jews. They either denied their affiliation to the ancient people, or from overextending themselves, if only to humiliate their fellow men. At one of the first congress of Russian Marxists, Trotsky was ruthlessly crushed the Bund - the General Jewish Workers Union. During the Civil War in Russia, he did not pay attention to the massacres inflicted on his people.

Throughout his adult life he was preparing a revolution. The son of a wealthy farmer, Leib Davidovich Bronstein was exiled when he was twenty years in Siberia for subversive activities against the royal regime. In Siberia, he married a revolutionary Alexandra Lvovna Sokolova, became the father of two daughters, Zina and Nina. In 1909 he fled to England (with the blessing of his wife, no family), took his pseudonym the name and the name of his jailer - Leon Trotsky and became a personal advocate of Lenin.

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Lenin, Trotsky sent back to Russia for underground work. Trotsky organized the workers′ councils in 1905 - during the "dress rehearsal" coup in 1917 - led an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government. He was arrested, imprisoned and exiled again to Siberia, where he escaped again and came to America. In 1917, after Lenin, he returned to Russia, and with it led the October Revolution, in which the Communists seized power in Russia and was ruled for more than seventy years.

Trotskyist understanding of the permanent revolution unfolding in the international arena, nearly became a reality. Trotsky and Lenin believed that their idea of a proletarian revolution would spread to Germany, France and England and the European flag will color red. The revolution in Russia later served as a model for revolts in China, Vietnam, Korea and Cuba. Agricultural in its most Third World states are more inclined to accept communism, rather than industrialized countries.

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All 11 years of living in exile (1929-1940) Trotsky made great efforts to expose the Stalinist terror. Of course, Trotsky was not a liberal Democrat, and believed in the full rule of the Communist Party.

And, finally, briefly on the fate of his two sons from his second marriage to Natalia Sedova (with her he lived unmarried in 1903). Leon Sedov was an active Trotskyist, accompanied his father into exile and died in 1938 in Paris under mysterious circumstances "from appendicitis. In contrast, Sergei Sedov left home because he was "disgusted with politics" father. He worked as an engineer at the Krasnoyarsk Machine Building Plant. In 1937 he was accused of trying to poison gas generator group of workers, arrested and shot.