Leon Trotsky was not apart of the October Revolution. However he lead the Red Army in the November Revolution as a part of the Bolshevik Party.
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Leon Trotsky and Lenin were part of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Trotsky a key Marxist theorist, and a leader of the Red Army in the counter revolution that followed.
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Leon Trotsky, the number two man in the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution of October 1917 was assassinated in Mexico City, Mexico in 1940.
Trotsky never did reign over Russia. Lenin did at first after the Revolution. Then Lenin became ill and Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev ruled together. After Lenin died, Trotsky was supposed to take over according to papers left behind by Lenin, but Stalin prevented that and forced Trotsky first out of the Communist Party then out of the country.
Leon Trotsky was the leader of the Red Army, which was massive and inspirational in the Revolution of 1917. He orchestrated the defeat of the Czarist White Army.
No, the Mensheviks were led mostly by Jules Martov. Trotsky was part of the Menshevik faction and one of its best theoreticians, but he wasn't their leader. Shortly before the October Revolution, Trotsky left the Mensheviks and joined the Bolsheviks.