yes he did, I believe he was assassinated in Coyoacan, Mexico on 21 Augest 1940, He was killed by an ice axe in his home by one of Stalin's assasin's, Several attacks took place in his home prior to the assasination by Stalin's Assasin's aswell
Actually, no he did not. He ordered one of his men to do it for him. The Ice ase was to his skull..
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Yes. As the All-Russian Commissar of War during the Russian Civil War, Trotsky led a ruthless campaign to purge the Red Army of many of its early commanders in order to transform it from a patchwork of independent detachments into a regular army. Hundreds of popular and charismatic leaders, who sprang up spontaneously from the ranks with the coming of the Revolution and who led the Red Guards and early Red Army regiments to victory in 1918 and the first half of 1919, were shot upon explicit orders of Trotsky in June and again in August 1919. Some of these, like Mykola Shchors of the 1st Soviet Ukrainian Division, were shot surreptitiously at the front lines, in order to make it look as if they were killed in battle with the enemy.
Yes, in several ways. Stalin had Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party, thrown out of the Soviet Union and assassinated in Mexico.
Vladimir Lenin, then Joseph Stalin
At first, lenin... then lenin died and Stalin screwed with the succession and seized power.
Stalin's chief was Vladimir Lenin during the years before the Russian Revolution and until Lenin's death.
There are various reasons that Stalin pretended that he was close to Lenin. For example, he thought that it would gain him support.
Lenin felt that Stalin was far too harsh and that he would not make a good leader, but after his unexpected death in 1924, Lenin did not name his succesor, and Stalin took that chance to take power.