Leon Trotsky
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Also known as Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Trotsky was a communist, a leader of the Russian Revolution, a writer and one of the most memorable politicians of Russian history. Trotsky first made it to London by escaping Serbia after spending two years of exile, when it was supposed to be four. He then met V.I. Lenin and began discussing Russia's social Democratic newspaper, which can be considered as the first step to the Russian Revolution. Eventually, word got out, and Trotsky soon learned about Bloody Sunday, which was a protest caused by famine and resulted in many killings of workers and families by the palace guards. This caused Trotsky to travel to Russia and begin writing articles and pamphlets to encourage rebellion as a way to help spark the revolution and over power the czar. This resulted in the start of the revolution of 1905, however, it was a failure, but Trotsky did not give up. After Trotsky was sent into exile again for leading the revolution, he then escaped once more and traveled around different cities. After WWI broke out and the czar was overthrown, Trotsky decided to head back to Russia in 1917 and help lead another revolution. This time the revolution was a success and Trotsky became part of a new government known as the Bolshevik party and befriended Lenin again. He then spent his time creating a peace treaty that would pull Russia out of WWI. However, when the time came of who would become Lenin's successor after he passed, Trotsky was beaten out by Joseph Stalin, when originally, Lenin wanted Trotsky to take the job. This caused Joseph, in time, to increase in power over Trotsky, while Leon eventually lost power in the government and was to be taken out of the country, thus putting Trotsky into exile again and being banished from the Soviet Union. As time went by, Trotsky began creating plots to remove Stalin from power. Stalin then learned about this, which caused him to sent agents to kill Leon Trotsky. However, Trotsky was killed by Ramon Mercader and died at age 60.