
Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein
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Emerging from a prosperous but unschooled Jewish farming family in Yanovka, the future revolutionary Lev Davidovich Bronstein acquired fluency in Russian and Ukrainian while also mastering French, English, and German, later adopting the name Leon Trotsky. He entered the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898, endured arrests and Siberian exile, and escaped to London where he met Lenin. Ini…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources