Leo Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Trotsky ; November 7, 1879 - August 21, 1940), whose surname was Bronshteyn (Russian: Бронштейн, Romanized: Bronshteyn), a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, thinker, and journalist. During the October Revolution, Trotsky served as a member of the Central Politburo of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) and chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. After the founding of Soviet Russia, he served as the Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly. He later served as the Soviet People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Committee. He presided over the establishment of the Soviet Red Army and became the de facto commander-in-chief. He is known as the "Father of the Red Army." He led the Bolsheviks to win the Russian Civil War (1917-1923) and made great military exploits. However, after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, he was excluded from the leadership core of the Soviet Communist Party (Bolsheviks) by Joseph Stalin at the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1927. From 1929, he went into exile overseas and went to Europe. In 1938, the World Socialist Revolutionary Party (Fourth International) was formed, and it still ideologically competes with left-wing organizations such as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China. On August 20, 1940, he was assassinated in Mexico City by Ramon McCard, an agent sent by Stalin. He died the next day. In August 1988, the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party rehabilitated Trotsky. Trotsky regarded himself as a "Bolshevik-Leninist", an advocate of orthodox Marxism and an advocate of revolutionary Marxism. The Marxist political theory he proposed and developed is called Trotskyism.