Trotsky, Leon D.

*		1879
†		1940

Beruf
Russian revolutionary and socialist theoretican

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	1905 organiser of the Petersburg Soviet during the 1st Russian Revolution
	1907-1914 publicist in Vienna
	Nov. 1917 organiser of the successful Bolshevik uprising against Kerensky's government
	1917/18 Commissar for External Affairs
	1918-1925 Peoples' Commissar for Defence; Founder and Supreme Commander of the Red Army
	1924 neutralised politically by Stalin after Lenin's death
	1929 expulsion from the USSR
	1938 founder of Trotskyism and of the IV International
	1940 in Mexican exile, murdered on Stalin's orders by the Soviet secret service