Leon Trotsky [Trotzki]
born Yanovka, Nov 7, 1879; died Coyoacán, Mexico, Aug 21, 1940
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Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist.
Second only to Lenin, he was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution of October 1917, became Commissar for Foreign Affairs, heading the Soviet delegation to the Brest-Litovsk negotiations in December 1917-February 1918, and subsequently commander of the Red Army. With the rise of Stalin in 1922 and the death of Lenin in 1924, Trotsky lost power and influence, finally being expelled from the Communist Party in 1927, and deported from the Soviet Union in 1929.
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