Why was Leon Trotsky significant to Russian Revolution?
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jannielsays
Very significant. Apart fom being very close to Lenin, as Commissar for War he took over command of the newly formed Red Army and managed to form a very effective fighting force with very limited resources based largely on dispirited and mutinous remnants of the former Tsarist Imperial Army., expanding it from a nucleus of 7,000 to some 5 million. Fighting on a number of fronts the Red Army defeated the various White Armies in a Civil War and stalemated interventionist forces of the Western Powers until they were forced to withdraw. Ruthless,energetic , a superb
orator and an almost messianic visionary he was an advocate of worldwide revolution and even after his fall from power and assassination he remained influential in western Marxist circles.
There is an excellent biography of Trotsky written by Isaac Deutscher.
Your follow-up : Trotsky was assassinated with an ice-pick by Ramon del Rio in 1940, in Mexico.
janniel says
Very significant. Apart fom being very close to Lenin, as Commissar for War he took over command of the newly formed Red Army and managed to form a very effective fighting force with very limited resources based largely on dispirited and mutinous remnants of the former Tsarist Imperial Army., expanding it from a nucleus of 7,000 to some 5 million. Fighting on a number of fronts the Red Army defeated the various White Armies in a Civil War and stalemated interventionist forces of the Western Powers until they were forced to withdraw. Ruthless,energetic , a superb
orator and an almost messianic visionary he was an advocate of worldwide revolution and even after his fall from power and assassination he remained influential in western Marxist circles.
There is an excellent biography of Trotsky written by Isaac Deutscher.
Your follow-up : Trotsky was assassinated with an ice-pick by Ramon del Rio in 1940, in Mexico.