Leon Trotsky Biography

Leon Trotsky Biography
Full Name: Mr. Lev Davidovich Bronshtein
Date of Birth: November 7, 1879
Place of Birth: Yanovka, Ukraine
Died: August 20, 1940
Place of Death: Coyoacán, Mexico
Classification: Leaders & Revolutionaries


After being imprisoned for years in Siberia, and being exiled from Russia when Joseph Stalin became the new leader of Russia, Leon Trotsky started his political career when he became the leader of the October Revolution of 1917. He was later appointed the commissar of foreign affairs under Vladimir Ilich Lenin. His writings display his deep philosophical beliefs as a theorist for fundamental communism, but later he leaned towards social democratization.

Trotsky was born into a Jewish family. His father was David Bronshtein and his mother was highly educated. He was the only one of their children to survive infancy. Although the family was of the middle class, young Leon was sent to study in Odessa – a formal education was a central part of his parents’ belief. Over the course of nearly 10 years, Trotsky lived with his cousins, who were open-minded intellects. While completing his education, he was made aware of the theories of Marxism and thereafter helped form the South Russian Workers’ Union.

Within two years of the turn of the 20 th century, Trotsky was sent to serve a four-year sentence in Siberia for his revolutionary connections. While there, he married and had two daughters, whom he would never see once he escaped with forged papers under the name Trotsky and thereafter went to London. While in Paris he had two more sons after marrying Natalya Sedova. He went to Brussels supporting his party, but his theories had evolved by this point to a form of democratic socialism.

Soon after, Trotsky moved back to his homeland and became the leader of a workers’ party that was in favor of revolution. Trotsky was again jailed and while there wrote some of his most renowned political essays. He escaped Siberia again and went to Vienna, where he worked during the Balkan Wars. He joined up with the social democrats once more and was forced to leave France and Spain due to his beliefs against the war.

UWhen Lenin knew that his time to lead Russia would be short, he asked for Trotsky’s help in getting Russia’s foreign policy back in order. By 1928, Trotsky was exiled again and eventually ended up in Mexico, where he was assassinated according to Stalin’s plans.
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