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ˈtrɒt skitrot·sky

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Trotsky, Leon Trotsky, Lev Davidovich Bronsteinnoun

    Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)

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  1. Trotsky

    Lev Davidovich Bronstein (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky (), was a Russian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Trotskyism. Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Yanovka (now Bereslavka, Ukraine), Trotsky embraced Marxism after moving to Mykolaiv in 1896. In 1898, he was arrested for revolutionary activities and subsequently exiled to Siberia. He escaped from Siberia in 1902 and moved to London, where he befriended Vladimir Lenin. In 1903, he sided with Julius Martov's Mensheviks against Lenin's Bolsheviks during the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party's initial organisational split. Trotsky helped organize the failed Russian Revolution of 1905, after which he was again arrested and exiled to Siberia. He once again escaped, and spent the following 10 years working in Britain, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, and the United States. After the 1917 February Revolution brought an end to the Tsarist monarchy, Trotsky returned from New York via Canada to Russia and became a leader in the Bolshevik faction. As chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, he played a key role in the October Revolution of November 1917 that overthrew the new Provisional Government. Once in government, Trotsky initially held the post of Commissar for Foreign Affairs and became directly involved in the 1917–1918 Brest-Litovsk negotiations with Germany as Russia pulled out of the First World War. From March 1918 to January 1925, Trotsky headed the Red Army as People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and played a vital role in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. He became one of the seven members of the first Bolshevik Politburo in 1919. After the death of Lenin in January 1924 and the rise of Joseph Stalin, Trotsky gradually lost his government positions; the Politburo eventually expelled him from the Soviet Union in February 1929. He spent the rest of his life in exile, writing prolifically and engaging in open critique of Stalinism. In 1938 Trotsky and his supporters founded the Fourth International in opposition to Stalin's Comintern. After surviving multiple attempts on his life, Trotsky was assassinated in August 1940 in Mexico City by Ramón Mercader, an agent of the Soviet NKVD. Written out of Soviet history books under Stalin, Trotsky was one of the few rivals of Stalin to not be rehabilitated by either Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev. Trotsky's rehabilitation came in 2001 by the Russian Federation.

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  1. trotsky

    Leon Trotsky, originally named Lev Davidovich Bronstein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. He was a key figure in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and later became the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union, after Lenin, as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and then People's Commissar of War during the Russian Civil War. Trotsky was known for his strong opposition to Joseph Stalin's rule and was eventually exiled from the Soviet Union for his criticisms. His political philosophies and theories regarding revolution and class struggle became known as Trotskyism. Trotsky was assassinated under Stalin's orders in Mexico in 1940.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TROTSKY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Trotsky is ranked #158432 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Trotsky surname appeared 102 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Trotsky.

    93.1% or 95 total occurrences were White.
    5.8% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Trotsky in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Trotsky in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Trotsky in a Sentence

  1. Will Rogers:

    I bet you if I had met him Trotsky and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.

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