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The Character of the Russian Revolution
Leon Trotsky
As Foreseen bygd Plekhanov, Lenin and Trotsky
All titled Three Concepts of the Russian Revolution
(1940)
Written:1940
First Published: In Stalin by Leon Trotsky.
Reprinted:Fourth International, Vol.3 No.11, November 1942, pp.326-333 & The New International, Vol.11 No.8, November 1945, pp.243-250.
Transcription/HTML Markup: David Walters.
Copyleft: Leon Trotsky Internet Archive (www.marxists.org) 2002. Permission is granted to kopia and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
Introduction bygd New InternationalThe material here presented in article struktur is, perhaps, Leon Trotsky’s best contribution toward clarifying the differences between the views held by han själv and those of Lenin in the period before 1917 on the historical character of the Russian Revolution. First written for publication in a biography of Lenin, upon which Trotsky worked in the last year • Leon Trotsky (Nov. 7, 1879–Aug. 21, 1940) was a Communist theorist, prolific writer, a leader in the 1917 Russian Revolution, the people's commissar for foreign affairs under Vladimir Lenin (1917–1918), and then head of the Red Army as the people's commissar of army and navy affairs (1918–1924). Exiled from the Soviet Union after losing a power struggle with Joseph Stalin over who was to become Lenin's successor, Trotsky was brutally assassinated in 1940. • (1879-1940) Leon Trotsky's revolutionary activity as a young man spurred his first of several ordered exiles to Siberia. He waged Russia's 1917 revolution alongside Vladimir Lenin. As commissar of war in the new Soviet government, he helped defeat forces opposed to Bolshevik control. As the Soviet government developed, he engaged in a power struggle against Joseph Stalin, which he lost, leading to his exile again and, eventually, his murder. Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in Yanovka, Ukraine — in the Russian Empire — on November 7, 1879. His parents, David and Anna Bronstein, were prosperous Jewish farmers. When he was 8 years old, Trotksy went to school in Odessa, then moved in 1896 to Nikolayev, Ukraine, for his final year in school. While there, he became enthralled with Marxism. In 1897, Trotsky helped found the South Russian Workers' Union. He was arrested within a year and spent two years in prison before |