Annette Miramontes
Period 1
A Young
Revolutionary
Leon
Trotsky was born to a Jewish
family with the name of Lev
Davidovich Bronstein.
Bronstein
was sent to jail for
revolutionary activity as a teenager
In
order to escape, he uses a fake
passport bearing the name of one of
his jailers: Leon Trotsky
He
used that pseudonym ever
since.
First Exile
 After escaping from jail, he fled to London where he
met Vladimir Lenin.
 He and Lenin became colleagues and good friends
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When he returned to Russia,
Leon Trotsky originally sided
with the Mensheviks, one of
two political parties from the
Russian Social Democratic
Labor Party split; the other
being the Bolsheviks.
Trotsky switched sides to join
the Bolsheviks because he
didn’t agree with the
Mensheviks anymore, and w1s
welcomed to the Bolsheviks.
Trotsky and Lenin worked to
thegethor and they created
plans for revolution in their
near future.
Leon Trotsky created his
theory because there was a
need to know which class
would have to lead the
upcoming Russian .
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Trotsky’s theory based on his
understanding of Marxism.
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Many people believed it to
be too daring too claim.
Twelve years later, history
proved his theory to be true.
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• The Bolsheviks had Leon Trotsky organize an army, called
the Red Army, which consisted of mainly the working class
• The Red Army fought against the White Army-the
Mensheviks, monarchists, militarists, and, briefly, foreign
nations –in the Russian Civil War.
o Played a major role
in the Russian civil
war in controlling the
Red Army.
o Because of his
natural leadership
capabilities, he
contributed to the
Bolshevik victory in
the Russian Civil
War.
Continual Exile and Opposing
Stalin
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After Lenin’s death
caused by a series
of strokes, Trotsky
and Joseph Stalin
fought to be his
successor.
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Joseph Stalin
Stalin won and
ousted Trotsky
from Russia.
Trotsky’s Assassination
Leon Trotsky was
assassinated by one of
Joseph Stalin's agents
by an ice axe driven
through his skull.
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Trotsky had been in
Mexico because he was
exiled from multiple
countries and few were
reliable.
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He died by the very
thing he tried so hard to
put into government.
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Works Cited
Leon Trotsky. Archive New Media. 01 Jan. 1995. eLibrary. Web. 21 May. 2010.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/mylife/
http://www.darkskymagazine.com/2009/08/18/tuesdays-literary-briefing-10/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Leon_trotsky.jpg
http://www.victoryrecords.com/item/9240/0/Catch_22_Permanent_Revolution
http://bankstowntafehsc.swsi.wikispaces.net/Leon+Trotsky+case+study?f=print
http://www.warchat.org/history-europe/russian-civil-war-1918-1920.html
http://www.infoukes.com/humour/if_i_did_it/
http://flickr.com/photos/31533333@N00/767034667
http://mexfiles.net/2008/08/21/21-august-1940-mexicos-most-famous-murder/