Open/Close All Full Name: Leon Trotsky Born: Nov. 7, 1879 in Yanovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire Died: Aug. 21, 1940 in Coyoacán, Mexico Leon Trotsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary leader and theorist, Soviet politician and founder and first leader of the Red Army whose ideas were the basis of Trotskyism, a major school of Marxist thought opposed to the theories of Stalinism; Trotsky spent his last days in exile in Mexico, where he was assassinated on Joseph Stalin’s ordersEconomists | Intellectuals | Martyrs | Politicians | Socialists Related Resources, Notes, Links, etc. See the Geopeda version of this article.
