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No, Catherine the Great did not free the serfs in Russia during her reign.
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.
No, Catherine the Great did not free the serfs during her reign as Empress of Russia.
No, Catherine the Great did not abolish serfdom during her reign as Empress of Russia.
The gulag was the system of prison camps in the Soviet Union. It is most commonly identified with Josef Stalin, who was responsible for the greatest number of prisoners sent there; however, the Soviet gulag system actually originated in the 1920's, during the reign of Vladimir Lenin.