Trotsky LCCN2014709056, George Grantham Bain collection
Summary
Title: Trotsky
Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was a communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia’s October Revolution in 1917, and later commissar of foreign affairs and of war in the Soviet Union (1917–24). In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, however, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
Tags
Date
1915
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain