Leon Trotsky

Biography

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary and politician who played a pivotal role in the establishment of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. As a key figure in the 1905 Revolution and the October Revolution of 1917, he was a central ideological rival to Vladimir Lenin until his assassination in 1940. A prominent Marxist and Leninist, Trotsky's ideas inspired a school of Marxism known as Trotskyism. His activism led to exile and eventual death at the hands of Stalin's agents.