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Trotsky, Leon

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(trŏt'skē, Rus. lā'Әn trôt'skē), 1879–1940, Russian Communist revolutionary, one of the principal leaders in the establishment of the USSR; his original name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein. Trotsky was born of Jewish parents in the S Ukraine. His father, a prosperous farmer, sent him to Odessa, where he became an outstanding student in a German secondary school. He early became a populist, and he began to be attracted to Marxism in late 1896. In 1898 he was arrested for the first of many times. Exiled to Siberia in 1900, he escaped in 1902, using a forged passport under the name of Trotsky, the head jailer of the Odessa prison in which he had earlier been held. He went to London and collaborated with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on the revolutionary journal Iskra [spark]. After the split (1903) in the Russian Social Democratic party he was for a short time a leading Menshevik spokesman, but he later established an independent course, wavering for years between Bolshevism and Menshevism . …
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Full text Article Trotsky, Leon

From Philip's Encyclopedia
Russian revolutionary leader and theoretician, b. Lev Davidovich Bronstein. A Marxist revolutionary from 1897, he headed the workers' soviet (revolutionary council) in St Petersburg in the Russian Revolution of 1905 . Arrested, he escaped abroad and embarked on the work that made him, with Lenin , …
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Full text Article TROTSKY, LEON (1879–1940)

From Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Trotsky adopted the name of one of his prison guards and had a distinguished career as a revolutionary before the Revolution of November 1917 . As a Menshevik, he took part in the Revolution of 1905 in St. Petersburg. Following arrest and trial, he escaped and went…
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Full text Article Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Any contemporary of ours who wants peace and comfort before anything has chosen a bad time to be born. The Observer 26 March 1933 The depth and the strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary…
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Full text Article RUSSIA

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [Broadcast, October 1939] Russia has two generals in whom she can trust – Generals Janvier and Février. [Attr.] [Urging more generous support for Boris Yeltsin] Without large-scale outside aid, …
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Full text Article CRUELTY

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Cruelty has a Human HeartAnd Jealousy a Human Face,Terror the Human Form Divine,And Secrecy the Human Dress. BLAKE, William ‘ A Divine Image ’ (c. 1832). I would not enter on my list of friends(Tho’ grac’d with polish’d manners andfine sense,Yet wanting sensibility) the manWho needlessly sets foot…
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Full text Article Gurvitch, Georges (1894-1965)

From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
Born in Novorossisk, Russia, Gurvitch closely observed the Russian Revolution, met V. I. Lenin , and knew Leon Trotsky (1879-1940). In 1917 he published a work on Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) and agrarian rights and became a lecturer at the University of Leningrad. He was made a professor at the…
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Full text Article Leon Trotsky as a young student (b/w photo)

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Leon Trotsky as a young student (b/w photo)
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Full text Article Kronstadt Rebellion

From Reference Guide to the Major Wars and Conflicts in History: Wars in the Early 20th Century (1900 to 1950)
1921 PRINCIPAL COMBATANTS: Sailors of the Kronshtadt Naval Base vs. Bolshevik government troops PRINCIPAL THEATER(S): Kronshtadt Naval Base outside of Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia DECLARATION: None MAJOR ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES: The sailors demanded an end to Communist Party dictatorship and…
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