Leon+Trotsky

Leon Trotsky



Born Lev David Bronshtein November 7, 1879 - August 21, 1940 Yanovka, Ukraine Communist

**__ Early Life and Education __** media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ukraine&aq=1&oq=Uk&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.823846,78.662109&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ukraine&t=m&z=6&ll=48.379433,31.16558&output=embed" width="425" height="350" align="center"


 * Father= farmer of Russified Jewish (1)
 * Mother= educated middle class (1)
 * At age 8 Trotsky was sent to live with his mother's nephew to attend school in Odessa (1) and became a populist (3)
 * "outstanding student in a German secondary school" (3)
 * Moved to Nikolayev in 1896 to finish school (1)
 * Intoduced to Marxism by underground socialst circle (1)
 * Returned after college to organize the underground South Russian Worker's Union (1)

__** Revolutionary Career **__
 * 1898- Arrested for revolutionary actions, Four and a half years in prison (1)
 * **PLUS +** Exiled to Siberia
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 * 1902- Escaped "with a forged passport bearing the name Trotsky, which he adopted as his revolutionary pseudonym" (1)
 * Joined Russian Socialist Democrats group in London (1)
 * Worked with Vladimir Ulyanov for the //Iskra// (revolutionary newspaper) (1)
 * Wife left behind, separation permanant (1)
 * 1903- Sided with the Menshevik faction at the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Worker's Party ("Advocating a democratic approach to socialism") (1)
 * Trotsky was against Lenin and the Bolsheviks (1)
 * Remarried and fathered to sons (1)
 * [[image:http://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/demo1930.jpg width="532" height="333" align="center"]]
 * 1905- Returns to Russia and becomes "leading spokesman of the St. Petersburg Soviet (council) of Workers' Deputies (1)
 * "Set up Soviets of deputies in the factories and shops" (2)
 * Set up mass strikes and destruction (2)
 * Aftermath of defiance and strike resulted in Trotsky's return to jail (1)
 * 1906- Brought to trial (1)
 * While in jail Trotsky writes "Results and Prospects" (1)
 * Develops theory of permanent revolution (3)
 * 1907- Exiled to Siberia again and escaped AGAIN (1)
 * Settles in Vienna as a correspondent in the Balkan Wars (1)
 * Works as a journalist (3)
 * [[image:http://marxistleninist.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/trotskyism.jpg width="320" height="446" align="center"]]
 * 1912-13- Joined the Russian Social-Democrats at the beginning of World War I (1)
 * "Moved to Switzerland and then to Paris" (1)
 * Expelled from France and Spain due to his antiwar stance (1)
 * 1917- Reached New York City (1)
 * <span style="color: #1c1f82; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">"Joined the Bolshevik theoretician Nikolay Bukharin in editing the russian-language paper //Novy Mir//" (1)


 * 1917- Lenin invites Trotsky into the Bolshevik Party.(5)
 * [[image:http://flagspot.net/images/b/by%7Dnbp2.gif width="432" height="216" align="center"]]
 * Joined after the Revolution that happened in February (6)
 * head of the Petrograd Soviet Committee (6)
 * planned and executed the final coup: Bolsheviks in power (6)
 * First step: "gain control of the 240,000 soldiers in the capital and its environs" (6)


 * 1918 - "led 5 million man army to victory" (9)
 * secured survival of Bolshevik government
 * 1921 - "various groups sole aim was to defeat communists." (10)
 * 1924 - Lenin dies which allows Trotsky to take charge


 * Stalin questions Trotsky's leadership credibilty (7)
 * "having such an impeccably anti-Bolshevik and anti-Leninist record" (7)
 * "Trotsky went on to belittle the role of the Bolshevik Party" (7)
 * 1925 - Trotsky was removed from power (9)
 * Stalin believed in socialism in one country which many other countries now accepted this view (9)
 * 1927 - Trotsky is completely removed from the Communist Party (9)
 * August 20, 1940 Trotsky is assassinated (5)

Animal Farm  Snowball vs. Trotsky



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 * Snowball creates plans for the windmill - Trotskyism, plans for his military coup
 * "snowball had made a close study of some back numbers of the //Farmer and Stockbreeder// which he had found in the farmhouse, and was full of plans for innovations and improvements." (p. 34)
 * Snowball slowly gains animal's trust - Trotsky gaining men for his military coup [[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQYzeO04s9Oq80ZP4Hatfn2aksrAZru8YYEUqELGHNs9rpRzo83PQ width="260" height="194" align="right"]]
 * "All of them came to look at Snowball's drawings at least once a day." (p. 35)
 * Snowball is chased out and over thrown by Napoleon - Removed from Communist Party by Stalin
 * " They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws." (p. 37)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__ References __**
 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">Daniels, R. (2012) //Leon Trotsky//. Retrieved from [|http://www.biography.com]
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">Smith, I. (1973). Trotsky. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (1990). Retrieved from [|www.factmonster.com]
 * 4) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">Rosenberg, J. (n.d.). //Leon Trotsky//. Retrieved from [|www.history1990s.about.com]
 * 5) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">Goldston, R. (1966). //The Russian Revolution.// Indianapolis, IN: The Bobb-Merill Company, Inc.
 * 6) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">Fader, K. (1998). //Russia//. San Diego: Lucent Books, Inc.
 * 7) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">Brar, H. (1998). //Trotskyism or Leninism.// Retrieved from [|www.mltranslations.org]
 * 8) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">Etkind, A. (1994). //Trotsky and Psychoanalysis//. 61(2), 303-308. Retrieved from [|http://sks.sirs.com]
 * 9) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">Simkin, J. (2011, October 10). //Lev Davidovich Bronshtein//. Retrieved from [|www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk]
 * 10) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 150%;">Trueman, C. (2012). //The Russian Civil War//. Retrieved from [|www.historylearningsite.co.uk]