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Lev Davidovich Bronstein [b] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, [c] was a Soviet politician, revolutionary, and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution , [ 3 ] October Revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War , and establishment of the Soviet Union .
Lev Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin and Lev Kamenev (L-R). Photo TASSМосква. На снимке слева направо: Лев Давидович Троцкий, Владимир Ильич Ленин. и Лев Борисович Каменев в перерыве работы 2-го съезда III Интернационала.
Image title: Headshot of Russian Revolutionary political leader and author Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), 1930s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Leon Trotsky (Russian: Лeв Давидович Трóцкий) was a Ukrainian-born ethnically-Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union , first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's ...
Trotsky: A Biography is a biography of the Marxist theorist and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) written by the English historian Robert Service, then a professor in Russian history at the University of Oxford. It was first published by Macmillan in 2009 and later republished in other languages.
King, who admired Trotsky, then began to collect his photographs and memorabilia to counteract the suppression of his image under Stalin. [4] [3] He uncovered many unknown images of Trotsky, and in 1972, he published his first book, Trotsky: A Documentary, with text by the Sunday Times writer Francis Wyndham. [2]
During that time, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky and ten other paintings were loaned to the National Gallery of Art. [17] The museum reopened in October 2023 with Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky returning as a centerpiece of the NMWA's collection. It is the only Kahlo painting in a Washington, D.C., museum's permanent collection.