The great Jewish revolutionist: Leon Trotsky
He established the Russian Red Army and caused Stalin's exile and murder. There is no doubt Lev Davidovich Bronshtein is a crucial part of European history
Trotsky learned mathematics in the University of Odessa, but gave up on his studies and dedicated himself to revolutionary activity against the Tsar's regime. He was first arrested in 1898 when he was working as the organizer of south Russia's workers union.
In 1900 Trotsky was sentenced to four years of exile in Siberia. He escaped from Siberia, adopted the name "Trotsky" and continued to London, in order to join Vladimir Lenin, who was then editor of the Iskra (the spark) newspaper, which was published by the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
During the 1905 revolution, Trotsky came back to Russia. He was elected for head of Petersburg supreme council. His involvement in the October general strike and support of armed resistance led to a lifetime exile sentence. On 1907 Trotsky escaped to London on the way to Siberia. In October he moved to Vienna, there he edited a Social Democratic Labour Party newspaper called "Pravda".
After the 1917 revolution which resulted in the dismissal of the tsar he came back to Russia as a supporter of the Bolshevik movement, and served as head of Petrograd supreme council. After the Bolsheviks rose to power, Trotsky was appointed as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
Between 1918 and 1925, Trotsky served as People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. He commanded and supervised the red army's actions during the Russian Civil War.
Following Lenin's death, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Stalin succeeded in seizing political power. At that point, Trotsky could not actively resist Stalin and thus established with his supporters a Left Opposition faction within the Bolshevik Party, which fought against Stalin's leadership.
In 1929 he was ousted from the USSR. He spent his last days in Mexico until he was murdered by Stalin's messengers in 1940.
