Hsc online modern history trotsky biography

Leon Trotsky () was a Russian Marxist and leading figure in the Russian Revolution of Second, only to Lenin, Trotsky was a key figure in the Russian civil war and the formative years of the Soviet Union.

After Lenin’s death, Trotsky was outmanoeuvred by Stalin, and he was expelled from the Communist party and Russia. In , he was executed, on Stalin&#;s orders, while living in exile in Mexico.

Leon Trotsky was a committed Marxist &#; dedicated to the overthrow of Capitalist systems he saw as inherently unjust.

I've taken the syllabus points from Section 1 'Historical Context' and split them up into the sections of Trotsky's life to which they belong.

He was also an internationalist, seeking a worldwide Communist revolution. To some Marxists, Trotsky is an icon of true Marxists principles and someone who would have avoided the worst excesses of Stalin&#;s dictatorship. He has been criticised by others for promoting internal repression during the Red Terror &#; and making the Bolshevik party increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of criticism &#; a repressive organisation which would ultimately be used against him by St