Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was on of the revolutionaries that strike the goverment of Tsar Nicholas II durimg the Bolchevik, and the creator of The Red Army, the one that will help the "Reds" win the war. Trotsky lead with strength and influence "his" army, untill he was betrayed and condemned to the exile.

Trotsky Live's
Lev Davidovich Bronshtein was born on the 7th of November of 1879 and died on the 21st of August of 1940. He was born in Yankova, Kherson Province (now part of Ukraine) in 1879, the son of a prosperous farmer. He went to school in Odessa where he discovered Marxist literature. On leaving school he became a professional revolutionary, funding himself by writing articles for many newspapers and magazines. He was sentenced to internal exile several times, finally escaping the country for Western Europe in 1902 (he lived in many cities and countries).

During the 1905 Revolution he quickly returned to Russia and helped to organise the St Petersburg Soviet - a council of workers and soldiers. He was soon arrested and sent to Siberia - he escaped en route and fled to Vienna, he later went to New York. He returned to Russia in May 1917.

Before and during the October Revolution Trotsky was the chairman of the the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. It was this organisation that, under Lenin's direction, that staged the takeover of the state known as the October Revolution.

During and after the revolution
As the Revolution descended into Civil War, Trotsky was given the task of organising the Bolshevik Red Army to fight the anti-Bolshevik forces, the Whites and other groups hostile to the Bolshevik takeover - including the UK, USA, France and Japanese who took over ports around the country trying to force Russia back into WWI - and later to try to depose the new regime. After the Civil War he was considered one of the front runners for the role of leading the country after the death of Lenin - but he fell foul of the master manipulator (who hated his popularity, his organisational skills and was wary that the army may be loyal to him - Stalin). Stalin had him exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929. Trotsky wrote a number of books, articles and pamphlets decrying what had happened to the revolution and proposed alternative policies for the country - leading to the branch of communism known as Trotskyism. Stalin took action against him, and, in 1940, in Mexico, he was stabbed to death.