Why did Leon Trotsky appeal to people?

Answer 1

In 1897, he was a driving force in founding the South Russia Workers Union and in 1898 the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP).

Trotsky shifted from the Menshevik faction of the RSDLP to Lenin's Bolshevik faction and became a leading socialist theoretician.

He became president of the Petrograd Soviet just before the October Revolution and was deeply involved in planning the Bolshevik insurrection that became known as the October Revolution.

He was the new country's first Commissar of External Affairs. When the Russian Civil War broke out, he became Commissar of Military Affairs; organized the Red Army and defeated the White forces.

He became Lenin's number two man in running the country after that, but when Lenin died, he lost a power struggle to Joseph Stalin. Stalin had him expelled from the Communist Party, exiled from the country and eventually murdered 25 years later.

Answer 2

Leon Trotsky influenced people in various ways through his leadership skills and his writings on the Soviet revolution and Marxism. He was a communist theorist who led the 1917 Russian Revolution along with Lenin and the other Bolsheviks.

Answer 3

Leon Trotskyâ??s leadership saved the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Trotskyâ??s strong suite was organization and he excelled at everything he undertook. He helped to organize the new Russian government at Lenin's request and despite having no skills in managing a military, he managed to reshape and turn the Red Army into a formidable force based on a set hierarchy of responsibility.

Answer 4

A better question would be "Why does Trotsky appeal to people?" He appeals to people primarily because he represents a genuine, communist alternative to Stalin and Stalinism. He is seen (rightly I think) as being one who carried the tradition of Leninism and revolutionay Bolshevism onward and fought against Stalinism's distortions and degradations of them and Marxism and socialism more generally.