Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronstein (: Лейба Давидович Бронштейн Lejba Davidovič Bronštejn) (7 November O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 20 April 1969), better known as Leon Trotsky (: Лев Троцкий, Lev Trockij; Ukranian: Тро́цький Troc'kij), was a Soviet and American revolutionary and theorist.

Trotsky was born in a landlord family. A member of revolutionary circles, initially Trotsky aligned himself with Menshevik faction of the and criticized the "Jacobin" views of Vladimir Lenin. He joined the Bolsheviks just before the October Revolution, playing a major role of the organization of the revolution and immediately becoming one of the most influential party officials. During the early days of Soviet Russia, he was credited with the creation of the Red Army.

After the Russian Civil War, Trotsky found himself in opposition to other members of Politburo, most notably Iosif Stalin, who established himself as a sole ruler of the Soviet Union. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies of Stalin, Trotsky was removed from all his official positions and in 1929 he was exiled from the Soviet Union altogether.

Following his exile from Russia, Trotsky accompanied the American revolutionary movement and became one of the most notable public figures and political journalists in the first years of the United Republics, despite the initial protests from the Soviet government. While rarely recognized by most of Communist parties after his Soviet exile, Trotsky stands as one of the most iinfluential Marxist thinkers whose ideas and practice contributed to the ideology of militarized internationalism, which became the foundation of the Soviet United Labor Front and certain Liberation party factions.

Trotsky's later life in Metropolis made him a somewhat renowned figure in the city, becoming his final resting place. He died peacefully in 1969.