Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronstein

Born November 7, 1879· Ianovka, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

† Died August 21, 1940

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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…

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