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Who beat out Leon Trotsky for leadership of the Russian communist party and therefore leadership of the soviet union?
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What happened to leon trotsky in 1924?
Leon Trotsky was one of the Communist leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He died in 1924.
Who did trotsky lead?
Trotsky led the Bolshevik/Communist Red Army forces in the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution of 1917.
What party was Leon Trotsky associated with?
Trotsky was first associated with the Menshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, then the Bolshevik Party and lastly the Communist Party.
What Marxist leader overthrew the post-Czar Russian government?
No Russian communist overthrew the Russian monarchy. The Tsar abdicated in March 1917 after the February Revolution. A non-communist Provisional Government was then set up. In October 1917, the Russian Communist leader overthrew the Provisional Government. The Russian monarchy had already been overthrown.
How were Lenin and Trotsky linked?
Lenin was leader of Bolsheviks and Trotsky was second in command until Lenin died in 1924. Lenin had appointed Trotsky People's Commissar for External Affairs after the October Revolution. Then, when the Russian Civil War broke out, Lenin appointed him Commissar of War. Lenin had picked Trotsky over Stalin to succed him but Trotsky lost out to Stalin and others for the right to succeed Lenin. Stalin managed to expel Trotsky from the Communist Party and then from the country. In 1940, Stalin had a Russian agent murder Trotsky.
Who was Leon Trotsky and what became of him?
Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary at first allied with the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party. He later changed his alliance and went over to Lenin and the Bolsheviks. During the October Revolution, Trotsky was considered Lenin's right hand man. During the Russian Civil War Trotsky became Commissar of War and organized the Red Army, which then defeated the opposing White Russian forces. Trotsky was Lenin's choice to succeed him, but Joseph Stalin and others in the Bolshevik/Communist Party plotted against Trotsky, had him expelled from the Party, exiled from the country and assassinated in Mexico by Stalin's henchmen in 1940.
Who was Leon Trotsky killed by?
Trotsky was killed by a Russian agent named Ramon Mercader.
What did Joseph Stalin do to Leon Trotsky?
After Lenin's death, Stalin managed to oust Trotsky from membership in the Communist Party, then from the Soviet Union itself. Trotsky was forced into exile first to Turkey, then France, then Norway and finally to Mexico. In 1940, Stalin had a Russian agent named Ramon Mercader murder Trotsky with an ice axe.
Where did Leon Trotsky write his version of the 1905 Russian Revolution?
Leon Trotsky wrote his version of the 1905 Russian Revolution in exile in Siberia.
Why did Leon Trotsky decide to leave Russia?
Leon Trotsky decided to leave Russia because he was expelled from the Communist Party and faced threats to his life from Joseph Stalin's regime. He believed that he could no longer effectively oppose Stalin's leadership while remaining in the country.
What kind of leadership style did Leon Trotsky have?
Autocratic
Who was the communist leader who competed with Stalin for power?
Leon Trotsky
