Democracy became an important topic following Lenin's health leave ; Trotsky and Zinoviev were its main backers, but Zinoviev later changed his position when he aligned himself with Stalin.

Whereas Trotsky advocated world permanent revolution, Stalin's concept of socialism in one country became primary policy as he emerged the leader of the Soviet Union.

In Siberia, Trotsky became aware of the differences within the party, which had been decimated by arrests in 1898 and 1899.

Under the pen name Pero (" feather " or " pen " in Russian ), Trotsky soon became one of the paper's leading authors.

In late 1902, Trotsky met Natalia Ivanovna Sedova, who soon became his companion and, from 1903 until his death, his wife.

In Vienna, Trotsky became close to Adolph Joffe, his friend for the next 20 years, who introduced him to psychoanalysis.

Trotsky temporarily joined the Mezhraiontsy, a regional social democratic organization in St. Petersburg, and became one of its leaders.

After the Bolsheviks came to power, Trotsky became the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and published the secret treaties previously signed by the Triple Entente that detailed plans for post-war reallocation of colonies and redrawing state borders.

Leon Trotsky, the main proponent of the world revolution, was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929, and Stalin's idea of Socialism in One Country became the primary line.

In June 1918, when it became apparent that a revolutionary army composed solely of workers would be far too small, Trotsky instituted mandatory conscription of the rural peasantry into the Red Army.

Lenin and Leon Trotsky, Russia became the 1st nation to legalize homosexuality.

In 1905, Trotsky formulated a theory that became known as the theory of Permanent Revolution.

It was during this year that Trotsky developed the theory of Permanent Revolution, as it later became known ( see below ).

During his leadership of the Russian revolution of 1905, Trotsky argued that once it became clear that the Tsar's army would not come out in support of the workers, it was necessary to retreat before the armed might of the state in as good an order as possible.

While the area attracted people who came to live and work in the creative, bohemian environment, it also became home for political exiles such as Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Porfirio Diaz, and Simon Petlyura.

Three of those parties joined the Left Opposition in signing a document written by Trotsky calling for a Fourth International, which became known as the " Declaration of Four ".

Zinoviev and Bukharin became concerned about Stalin's increasing power and proposed that the Orgburo which Stalin headed be abolished and that Zinoviev and Trotsky be added to the party secretariat thus diminishing Stalin's role as general secretary.

Afterwards, Chen became associated with the International Left Opposition of Leon Trotsky.

The Northern Expedition became a point of contention over foreign policy by Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky.

This tactic of " entering " the larger social democratic parties of each country, endorsed by Trotsky himself, became known as the " French Turn " and was replicated by various Trotskyist parties around the world.

Stalin quotes Lenin that " we have everything necessary to construct the complete socialism " and claims that despite the claims of Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev (" who later became spies and fascist agents ", in Stalin's words ), the socialist society has for the most part been indeed constructed.

Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río ( 7 February 1913 — 18 October 1978 ) was a Spanish communist who became famous as the murderer of the Russian Marxist Leon Trotsky in 1940, in Mexico.

Also, Leon Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev became subject of herem.

There is an unfinished portrait of Joseph Stalin, who became a hero to Kahlo after Rivera had a falling out with Trotsky.

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.

* The second trial in January 1937 involved 17 lesser figures known as the " anti-Soviet Trotskyite-centre " which included Karl Radek, Yuri Piatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov, and were accused of plotting with Trotsky, who was said to be conspiring with Nazi Germany.

A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist of the Second International, involved in politics with the Bulgarian Social Democratic Union, Romanian Social Democratic Party, and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

Wang's defence was that he was not involved in any Trotskyist activities, except for helping his friends Wang Wen-yuan ( 王文元 ) and Chen Qing-chen ( 陳清晨 ) to translate two prose pieces in " Autobiography of Leon Trotsky " (《 托洛茨基自傳 》), activities which he had already informed the Party.

The GPU claimed to have obtained a confession from his sister-in-law and former secretary, Anita Russakova, that she and Serge had been involved in a conspiracy led by Trotsky.

It is noteworthy that the documents used by this author came from government sources, recording the day-to-day actions of Trotsky, Lenin, Roosevelt, Hitler, J. P. Morgan and the various firms and banks involved.

Vidali is thought to have been involved with the insertion of assassin Ramón Mercader into Trotsky's inner circle-Mercader was to kill Trotsky later that year.

During the Moscow Trials in 1937, it was claimed that Trotsky, Kamenev, and Zinoviev were involved in this plot.

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 (, ; – 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.

Just before Trotsky's return, the Mensheviks had independently come up with the same idea that Trotsky had: an elected non-party revolutionary organization representing the capital's workers, the first Soviet (" Council ") of Workers.

* Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist

* 1879 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary ( d. 1940 )

It was these views of Martov that predominated in a manifesto drawn up by Leon Trotsky ( a major Bolshevik revolutionary ) at a conference in Zimmerwald, attended by thirty-five Socialist leaders in September 1915.

Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky argued that, following a socialist revolution, money could not be arbitrarily abolished.

** Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary ( b. 1879 )

* November 7 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary ( d. 1940 )

Ironically, this latter phrase was coined by Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky in November 1917, using it against his opponents ( the Mensheviks ) and suggesting that communism was the future ; the irony may not have been lost on Reagan's speech writers.

Trotsky argues that countries like Russia had no " enlightened, active " revolutionary bourgeoisie which could play the same role, and the working class constituted a very small minority.

" The notable African-American Marxist-Leninist Harry Haywood, who spent much time in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 30s, stated that although he had been somewhat interested in Trotsky ’ s ideas when he was young, he came to see it as " a disruptive force on the fringes of the international revolutionary movement " which eventually developed into " a counter-revolutionary conspiracy against the Party and the Soviet state.

That does not, however, lessen the guilt of Leon Trotsky as one of the actors in the revolutionary drama of which Kronstadt was one of the bloodiest scenes.

Trotsky believed that the coming World War would produce a revolutionary wave of class and national struggles, rather as World War I had done.

The Transitional Programme was the central programmatic statement of the congress, summarising its strategic and tactical conceptions for the revolutionary period that it saw opening up as a result of the war which Trotsky had been predicting for some years.

Although the Red Army, commanded by Trotsky, crossed the ice over the frozen Baltic Sea to quickly crush the rebellion, this sign of growing discontent forced the party to foster a broad alliance of the working class and peasantry ( 80 % of the population ), despite left factions of the party which favored a regime solely representative of the interests of the revolutionary proletariat.

We stand 100 % with all the principled positions of Leon Trotsky, the most revolutionary communist since Lenin ".

The Russian communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote despatches for the paper following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929.

Natalia Ivanovna Sedova (; April 5, 1882, Romny – January 23, 1962, Corbeil ) is best known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary.

Her best known work in these last years was a biography of Trotsky, which she co-authored with fellow Russian revolutionary Victor Serge.

Under his influence, she came to adopt the position that the USSR was a state capitalist society and that the Fourth International founded by Trotsky no longer held to the revolutionary programme of Communism.

Dobbs met the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky when he visited Mexico shortly before Trotsky's death in 1940.

Farrell Dobbs and Trotsky in Mexico 1940In 1960, Farrell Dobbs and Joseph Hansen, Trotsky ’ s former secretary in Mexico, went to Cuba to experience the revolutionary movement there.