Question by Science and religion??: What were Trotsky’s roles in the Russian Revolution?
Was it mainly just the Red Army? D:
I need more information for my speech on how he impacted the Russian Revolution. ):
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Answer by Arnold Ziffle
trotsky’s real name was michael bronstien. he was a jew from the bronx ny. he killed russian christians, in countless acts of genocide. and dont forget the ukrainian genocide. put that in your speech
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Whoops. Apologies for this rambling rubbish which I have deleted. I spent some time drinking yesterday and this was the result. Another Asker had me reported so don't drink and write. Sorry everyone, particularly the Asker.
Spellbound says
Trotsky's real name was Leiba Davidovich Bronstein – not Michael. He was born in Southern Russia in Yanovka, now in modern Ukraine.
Trotsky was the chairman of the the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. It was this organisation that, under Lenin's direction, that staged the takeover of the state known as the October Revolution.
As the Revolution descended into Civil War, Trotsky was given the task of organising the Bolshevik Red Army to fight the anti-Bolshevik forces, the Whites and other groups hostile to the Bolshevik takeover – including the UK, USA, France and Japanese who took over ports around the country trying to force Russia back into WWI – and later to try to depose the new regime.
After the Civil War he was considered one of the front runners for the role of leading the country after the death of Lenin – but he fell foul of the master manipulator (who hated his popularity, his organisational skills and was wary that the army may be loyal to him – Stalin). Stalin had him exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929.
Trotsky wrote a number of books, articles and pamphlets decrying what had happened to the revolution and proposed alternative policies for the country – leading to the branch of communism known as Trotskyism. Stalin took action against him, and, in 1940, in Mexico, he was stabbed to death.
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/tro…
For an in depth examination of his life, works and ideas see: http://www.trotsky.net/
Trotsky – A Biography by Robert Service
Trotsky became a Bolshevik in eary October 1917, until then he was a Menshevik.