Trotsky

Trotsky

1. Early Career

   • Initially supported Menshiviks
     • (Supported Marxist Cycle)
   • Exiled to Siberia
     • Escaped and made his way to London where he joined Social Democratic Party
   • Spent 15 years abroad
   • 1903 social democrats split
     • Lenin became leader of Bolsheviks
     • Trotsky joined Mensheviks
       • Developed ''Permanent Revolution'' theory
   • February Revolution 1917
     • Came back to Russia
     • Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks
       • Played a decisive role in the communist take-over of power in the same year
       • Despite previous disagreements with Lenin
   • He was elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet
   • January 22nd 1905
     • Unarmed demonstrators killed by imperial guard
       • Trotsky returned to Russia to support uprising
       • End of 1905 became leader of movement
     • In December the rebellion was crushed
       • Trotsky sent to Siberia again
         • January 1907, escaped and traveled to europe

2. Marxist Revolutionary and theorist