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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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