Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)

Born:
November 7, 1879 in Ianovka, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Died:
August 21, 1940(age 60)

About:
Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, politician, journalist and political theorist. He was a central figure in the establishment of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. Ideologically a Marxist, Trotsky's writings and thought inspired a major school of the ideology known as Trotskyism.