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Leo Trotsky:

• Lev Davidovich Bronstein
• Province of Kherson, Ukraine
• November 7, 1879

Died:

• August 20, 1940
• Murdered in Mexico by Ramon Mercader who put an ice pick through his head while Trotsky read one of Mercader's manuscripts

• Married Alexandria Sokolovskaya
• Daughter, Nina (died 1928)
• Daughter, Zina (died 1933, suicide)
• Son, Leon (died 1938)
• Son, Sergei (died 1937)
• Married Natalya Sedova

Major Events:

• Arrested in 1898 for leading worker demonstrations and held for 2 years
• Fled to London in 1902 where he adopted the name Trotsky
• Returned to Russia in 1905 after the first Russian Revolution and became president of the St. Petersburg Councils of Workers Delegates
• Arrested in 1906 and sent to Siberia he escaped and fled to Vienna
• Fled to U.S. in 1917 but returned to Russia later that year to join the Bolsheviks
• In late 1917 after a brief imprisonment, he was elected St. Petersburg Soviet and became a leader in the October insurrection brining the Bolsheviks to power
• Founded the Red Army in 1918 and became Commissar of War until 1925
• Deported from Russia to an island off Turkey in 1929, he conducted a campaign to warn the world about fascism, but went unnoticed
• In 1932, he was stripped of Soviet citizenship
• Forced to leave Turkey in 1933, he was finally allowed into France
• In 1935, he was expelled from France and went to Norway
• After receiving pressure from Stalin, Norway expelled him and by 1937 he was living in Mexico
• In May 1940, the first of two assassination attempts was made on his life by a Stalinist gang led by the famous Mexican painter, David Alfaro Siquieros

Writings:

• Permanent Revolution (1907)
• From the February Revolution to Brest Litovsk (1923)
• Terrorism and Communism (1925)
• How the Revolution Armed Itself (1926)
• Literature and Revolution (1926)
• On Lenin (1926)
• Where is Britain Going? (1926)
• Europe and America (1927)
• Problems of Everyday Life (1927)
• Problems of the Chinese Revolution (1927)
• Trotsky on China (1927)
• Criticism of the Comintern Program (1927)
• The History of the Russian Revolution (1929)
• My Life (1929)
• Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It (1930)
• The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany (1932)
• The Revolution Betrayed (1935)
• The Transitional Program (1937)