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Leon Trotsky
- Personal life
- His Parents are called David and
Anna Bronstein
- They were Jewish
farmers
- When he was 8 he went to school in Odessa
- he moved in 1896 to Nikolaye ,
Ukraine to do his final year at
school
- Here he became enchanted by Marxism
- 1896 -1900
- He helped organize the south Russian
Workers unions in Nikolayev in early 1897
- He wrote and printed, proclamations ,
distributed revolutionary pamphlets , and
popularized socialist ideas among industrial
workers and revolutionary students.
- using the name of Lvov
- He was arrested in January 1898
along with 200 of the members of the
union
- He spent two years in Prison ,
awaiting trial
- First in Nikolayev then Kherson
then Odessa and finally Moscow
- In Moscow Prison he met other
revolutionaries and first read
Lenins book and became a
Marxist
- " the development of capitalism in Russia"
- Two months into his prison time on the
1-3 march 1898 the first Congress of the
newly formed Russian Social
Democratic Labor Party was held , he
identified as a party member
- 1900 - 1902
- in the summer of 1900 in
prison he met and married
Aleksandra Sokolovskaya a marxist
- In 1900 he was sentenced to 4 years
in exile to Ust-Kut and Verkholensk
- him and his wife were alowed to be exiled to the same place
- They had 2 daughters born in
Siberia called Zinaida and Nina
- he sided with iskraa ( London based newspaper)
position and ideas about what should happen to
russia and began writing for them
- in the summer of 1902 at the urging
of his wife he escaped Siberia hidden
in a load of hay on a wagon
- Aleksandra
escaped later
with their
daughters
- They soon divorced and
the daughters were later
raised by his parents
- The daughters died
before the parents
- She disappeared in 1935 during the
Great Purges and was murdered by
Stalinist forced 3 years later
- 1902 - 1903
- First time he used the name
Trotsky
- said he adopted the
name after a jailer of the
odessa prison
- He moved to london with other editors of the iskra under
the pen name Pero, he became one of the leading authors
- in late 1902 he met a new
wife and she later died
- 1903 - 1904
- Trotsky and most of iskra editors
suppoted the Menshaviks
- He left the Menshaviks in September 1904
- because of the instances on a alliance
with Russian Liberals and their
opposition to a reconciliation with lenin
and the bolshiveks
- from 1904 - 1907 he described himself as a
non - factional social democrat.
- 1905 - 1906
- After the bloody sunday he returned to russia in feburuary 1905
- by kiev
- he worked with both the boshaviks and local menshaviks
- he was betrayed b the secret police in may and
fled to finland
- confusion from multiple industaries going on strike meant he
was able to return to st petersberg on 15th october 1905
- he joined the st petersberg soviet under the
name yanovsky
- and was elected vice president
- was elected chairmen 26th november 1905
after Khrustavle-Nosars arrest
- they issued a proclamation against
the tsar system
- this caused them to be arrested
- they were tried in 1906 on charges of supporting an
armed rebellion
- the trail was on the 4th october
1906 he delivered one of his bsest
speeches
- he was convicted and and
sentenced to internal exile in
siberia
- 1907 - 1914
- while on route to exile in january 1907 he
escaped at berezov
- because of the start of ww1 he was forced to flee vienna
for neutral switizland to avoid arrest as a russian emigre
- in went to vienna and
while their he wrote for a
newspaper called Pravda
- money was not there to publish it so he went to russian central
committe to get finical backing throughout 1909
- the russian central committe was mainy controlled
by bolsheviks at the time of 1910 Lenin agreed to
help but wanted a bolshivik to be co - editior
- the paper folded in april
1912
- 1914 - 1917
- he wrote a book opposing the war called the
war and the internatioanl
- he moved to france on 19
november 1914
- he began editing for Nashe Slovo a
internationalist socialist paper
- he attended the Zimmerwald conference in september 1915 and a middle
solution between ideas likes Lenins and ideas like martov
- in the end Lenin voted for this middle ground
- on march 31 he was deported to spain
for his anti - war activities
- spain did not want his so he was
deported to usa on 25th december 1916
- he arrived in new york on 13 january 1917
- after the feburay revolution he went back to ruusia
- he left on the 27th march but his ship was
intercepted by British navel
- he was detained for a month and was freed on the 29 april
- he reached russia on the 4th
may
- Temp joined the Mezhraionsty and
became one of their leaders
- at the first congress of soviets in june he was elected a member of
All Russian central executive committe
- was arrested on the 7
augest 1917
- he was elected chairman on 8 october and was
with lenin
- after the succseful uprising of 7 -8 he
led the efforts to repel a counter
attack on by Cossacks
- by the end of 1917 he was second man
in the bolshivek party