Leon Trotsky: Bolshevik Revolution

Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky was a Russian leader of the Bolshevik revolution. He was born in the Ukraine with the name of Lev Davidovich Bronstein on November 7, 1879. As a young man he attended the school of Odessa. In 1897 he was arrested for two years and was then sentenced to Siberia because he had helped fund the South Russian Workers` Union. While in prison, he met his first wife Alexandra Lvovna with whom he had two daughters with. After he completed his two year sentence in prison Trotsky escaped his exile and also left his wife and two daughters. With a successful escape, he then on forged papers changed his name from Lev Davidovich Bronshtein to Leon Trotsky. As Leon Trotsky, he moved to London, England where he decided to join the Socialist Democratic Party. During his stay in London he met Vladimir Lenin, and also his second wife Natalia Ivanovna. He had two boys with Natalia. As part of the Socialist Democratic Party, Lenin wants to make the party small and have it consist of professional revolutionaries, meanwhile another member Julius Martov want to make the party large consisting of a more democratic organization of supporters. Trotsky wants both parts to compromise and come together in an agreement. To Trotsky’s misfortune both parts saw it as a disloyalty.
He was able to negotiate the Russian involvement in World War 1 with the Germans. By 1918 he had become War Commissioner, he helped build the Red army and was able to defeat the anti-Communist opposition in the Civil War. As Lenin got sick most thought that Trotsky was bound to take over Russia. Unfortunately Trotsky did not get the spot, it was Joseph Stalin who did. Trotsky went against Stalin. Stalin responded by banning him from most political groups leading Trotsky to leave Russia. He ended up in Turkey where he wrote his autobiography and about the Russian