Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist, a leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution alongside Lenin.
After losing a power struggle to Stalin, he was expelled from the Soviet Union and later assassinated in Mexico in 1940.
Trotsky's name survives in Trotskyism—a form of Marxism emphasizing permanent revolution and opposition to Stalinist bureaucracy—and Trotskyite, often used disparagingly for leftists deemed insufficiently loyal to party orthodoxy.
Soviet state founder
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- PolitburoCommunist party's governing body
Central Committee · USSR · Soviet Union · Kremlin · comrade · commissar · Pravda · civil war
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
internationalism · world revolution · socialist revolution · capitalism · imperialism · bureaucracy
Capital of its nation
- assassinationMurder of a prominent figure
- ice axeMountaineer's spiked implement
- asylumShelter from persecution
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
expulsion · Norway · France · Turkey · Diego Rivera · Frida Kahlo · refuge · stateless
Developer of explanatory systems
- writerCreator of texts
- oratorSkilled public speaker
- polemicAggressive argumentative discourse
- analysisMethodical study of parts
critique · dialectic · journalism · pamphleteer · essayist · historian · autodidact · literary critic
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- agitatorOne who foments discord
- military strategistWarfare planning expert
- armed struggleViolent political conflict
militant · resistance · overthrow · radical · organizer · conspirator · underground · seizure of power
Lenin
Soviet state founder
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
Politburo · Central Committee · USSR · Soviet Union · Kremlin · comrade · commissar · Pravda · civil war · Petrograd
Marxism
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
means of production · internationalism · world revolution · socialist revolution · capitalism · imperialism · bureaucracy
Mexico City
Capital of its nation
- assassinationMurder of a prominent figure
- ice axeMountaineer's spiked implement
- asylumShelter from persecution
deportation · expulsion · Norway · France · Turkey · Diego Rivera · Frida Kahlo · refuge · stateless · fugitive
theorist
Developer of explanatory systems
analysis · critique · dialectic · journalism · pamphleteer · essayist · historian · autodidact · literary critic · Marxist theory
insurrection
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- agitatorOne who foments discord
- military strategistWarfare planning expert
armed struggle · militant · resistance · overthrow · radical · organizer · conspirator · underground · seizure of power
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- socialismMarxism, communism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, communal ownership
- CommunistsMarx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao
- Famous DeathsAbraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Leftist ThinkersKarl Marx, Engels, Lenin, Vladimir Lenin, Mao
- LeninBolsheviks, mausoleum, October Revolution, Leninism, embalming
Leon Trotskyreformism
Gradual political change doctrine
gradualism · social democracy · social democrats · democratic socialism