During the 1930s and 1940s Joseph Stalin's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Trotsky, and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) leadership in Catalonia.

The novel alludes to Ivan's own dogs as well as to Borzoi dogs owned by Leon Trotsky and his assassin, Ramón Mercader.

Several of the most prominent revolutionaries, including Leon Trotsky, were of Jewish descent.

Bolshevik revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky commonly used the terms " Bolshevism " and " Bolshevist " after his exile from the Soviet Union to differentiate between what he saw as true Leninism and the state and party as they existed under Joseph Stalin's leadership.

Leon Trotsky at first supported the Mensheviks, but left them in September 1904 over their insistence on an alliance with Russian liberals and their opposition to a reconciliation with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Left to right: Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, and Lev Kamenev

During his trip in Russia, Chiang met Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders, but quickly came to the conclusion that the Russian model of government was not suitable for China.

Leon Trotsky criticised this view, stating " our rules represent ' organisational nonconfidence ' of the party toward its parts, that is, supervision over all local, district, national and other organisations ... the organisation of the party takes place of the party itself ; the Central Committee takes the place of the organisation ; and finally the dictator takes the place of the Central Committee.

Following Lenin's forced departure due to ill health, a power struggle began, which involved Nikolai Bukharin, Lev Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Tomsky, Leon Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev.

For example, Leon Trotsky believed that central planners, regardless of their intellectual capacity, operated without the input and participation of the millions of people who participate in the economy and understand / respond to local conditions and changes in the economy would be unable to effectively coordinate all economic activity.

Central planning has been criticized by socialists who advocated decentralized mechanisms of economic coordination, including Leon Trotsky and Peter Kropotkin before the Austrian school critique, and later by Janos Kornai and Alec Nove.

Leon Trotsky argued that central planners would not be able to respond effectively to local changes in the economy because they operate without meaningful input and participation by the millions of economic actors in the economy, and would therefore be an ineffective mechanism for coordinating economic activity.

While Britannicas authors have included writers such as Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Leon Trotsky, as well as notable independent encyclopaedists such as Isaac Asimov, some have been criticised for lack of expertise:

* 1914 – Ramón Mercader, Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky ( d. 1978 )

The German stance was altered radically after 10 February when Leon Trotsky, despite the weakness of the Bolsheviks ' position, broke off negotiations, hoping revolutions would break out in the German Empire and change everything.

This included Leon Trotsky, the principal critic of Stalin among the early Soviet leaders.

Regarding the origins of the plot, people who knew Stalin, such as Khrushchev, suggest that Stalin had long harbored negative sentiments toward Jews, and anti-Semitic trends in the Kremlin's policies were further fueled by the exile of Leon Trotsky.

* 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.

* 1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.

He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council ( led by Leon Trotsky ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 defense of Tsaritsyn.

This move was opposed by Anton Pannekoek and Karl Leibknecht within the SPD and by others in the International such as Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin, some of whom participated in the ' Paris Commission ' set up by the International.

Radek was part of the Left Opposition from 1923, writing his famed article ' Leon Trotsky: Organizer of Victory ' shortly after Lenin's stroke in January of that year.

Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940 ), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein () on 7 November 1879, in Yanovka () or Yanivka (), in the Kherson guberniya of the Russian Empire ( today's Bereslavka (; ) in the Bobrynets Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine ), a small village from the nearest post office.

Leon Trotsky with his daughter Nina in 1915

Werblin's partners, Townsend B. Martin, Leon Hess, Donald C. Lillis, and Philip H. Iselin, had a falling out with Werblin over the way the team was run — though the franchise had begun to make a profit, Werblin was making all the policies and decisions himself with little or no input from his partners, much to their dismay.

Breton and his comrades supported Leon Trotsky and his International Left Opposition for a while, though there was an openness to anarchism that manifested more fully after World War II.

In United States v. Leon,, the Supreme Court, applying the " good faith " rule, ruled that evidence seized by officers relying in good faith on a warrant was still admissible, even though the warrant was later found to be defective.

They all went their separate ways: Paul Mares continued to play music, releasing a record in 1935 and ran the “ P & M New Orleans Barbeque ” with his wife in the late 1930s Leon Roppolo was ( and always had been ) mentally unstable and spent the last years of his life in and out of institutions until his early death in 1945, though he managed to keep playing music as best he could.

These roles were almost always played by men in drag ( most famously George Christy, Francis Leon, and Barney Williams ), even though American theater outside minstrelsy was filled with actresses at this time.

He usually appears calm and soft-spoken ( except when he is fighting with Leon ), though towards the end of the manga series, his attitude changes.

Such goal was never fulfilled, though, as both died by the end of the series ; Leon shot D's father, and D's father killed Agent Howell.

The formal results of those digs have not yet been published, though in 2005 a grant was issued by the Shelby White — Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications to produce an expedition final report.

* Trace Miller: Began his association with the foundationist church by doing scutwork as a way to make ends meet, though over time, Leon Henderson made him think a lot about doing God's work and inspired him to begin studying to be a foundationist priest.

In their second tournament, Dorados made it to the final once again, facing Club Leon though they lost.

Welles cast O ' Connell in the tiny role of a reporter in the closing scenes of Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), a film often referred to as O ' Connell's film debut, though in fact he had already appeared in Freshman Year ( 1939 ) and had costarred in two Leon Errol short subjects as Leon's conniving brother-in-law.

There are no dedications to St Illtud in Cornwall but many in Brittany though they are confined to the ancient dioceses of Leon, Treguier and Vannes.

Although the murder weapon in the assassination of Leon Trotsky was an ice axe, it is often described as an ice pick, which is incorrect in the United States ( though quite correct outside the U. S .).

The " city " represents a number of figures of the early beat circle: Allen Ginsberg ( as Leon Levinsky ), Lucien Carr ( as Kenneth Wood ), William Burroughs ( as Will Dennison ), Herbert Huncke ( as Junky ), David Kammerer ( as Waldo Meister ), Edie Parker ( as Judie Smith ) and also Joan Vollmer ( as Mary Dennison ) -- though she essentially has a non-speaking role ( however some of her ideas are quoted by the Ginsberg-figure ).

Porter made it to the final 20 ( even though he had the chicken pox ), but on a team that was heavy on guards ( Jordan, Alford, Vern Fleming, Alvin Robertson, and Leon Wood ), Porter was cut on May 13, 1984 along with Charles Barkley and John Stockton.

Breton and his comrades supported Leon Trotsky and his International Left Opposition for a while, though there was an openness to anarchism that manifested more fully after World War II.

The rebuilding was done by Florentine architect Bernardo Gambarelli ( known as Bernardo Rossellino ) who may have worked with the humanist and architect Leon Battista Alberti, though there are no documents to prove it for sure.

The concept of impossibilism — though not the specific term — was introduced and heavily influenced by the American Marxist theoretician Daniel De Leon, on the basis of theory that De Leon generated before his interest in syndicalism began ( see De Leonism ).

* In the episode, " Mister Softee " in the eighth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry and Leon attend a baseball autograph signing where Leon says, " I'm gonna go check out Joe Pepitone up in here ," though Pepitone does not actually appear.

) Another point of contention, though mainly in the minds of Harrison's recent biographers, concerns Leon Russell.