Trotsky (Leon Trotsky)

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary and Marxist thinker who played a key role in the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which overthrew the Russian Tsarist regime. He was a close ally of Vladimir Lenin and helped establish the Soviet Union's Red Army. Trotsky advocated for worldwide revolution and was famous for his theory of "permanent revolution," emphasizing continuous worldwide socialist upheavals. After Lenin’s death, he clashed with Stalin over the direction of the Soviet Union. Stalin eventually expelled and exiled Trotsky, who was later assassinated in Mexico in 1940. His ideas remain influential in Marxist thought.