16.12.2022
Lev Davidovich Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman, one of the organizers of the October Revolution. In this short article will be quite interesting facts about Lev Davidovich Trotsky.
1. Trotsky has his own “alternative” vision of Marxism, it is called “Trotskyism. The main points of Trotsky’s “theory” are.
2. None of the countries closest to the Soviet Union wanted to give Trotsky asylum because of the strong pressure from the Soviet government. But soon Mexico decided to “take under its wing” Lev Davidovich.
3. most of Trotsky’s descendants decided to take other surnames.
4. Leiba Davidovich Bronstein was the revolutionary’s real name. He became Trotsky after he put this very last name (which he borrowed from a senior warder) in false documents and escaped from prison.
5. He was also one of the creators of the Red Army.
6. When Lenin, forced to hide from the authorities in Finland, Trotsky led the Bolshevik movement.
7. The cities of Chapaevsk and Gatchina previously had a different name, and as you might have guessed, they were named after Lev Davidovich.
8. While in exile, Lev Bronstein was engaged in journalistic activities and wrote for the newspaper Oriental Review, whose readers responded warmly to his articles.
9. Trotsky had two marriages, but the second marriage was not registered because he did not divorce his first wife.
10. 10. Lev Trotsky took part in the International Zimmerwald Conference, along with Yu. But unlike them, he spoke out against military action, for which he was exiled to Spain.
11. When relations between Trotsky and Lenin heated up in 1903, Lenin allowed himself to speak ill-culturally about Lev. Trotsky was “glued” to such nicknames as: “political prostitute” and “Judushka.
12. Lev Davidovich survived all four of his children. Their fate was not easy and they died at a fairly young age. His daughter Zinaida committed suicide at the age of 31. Second daughter Nina died of tuberculosis at 26. Son Lev died because of complications after appendicitis removal at age 32. And Sergei was accused of attempting to poison workers and as a consequence was shot, at the time of his death he was 29 years old.
