{"slug": "leon-trotsky", "label": "Leon Trotsky", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33391", "qid": "Q33391", "description": "Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [1879, 1940], "span_label": ["1879 CE", "1940 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "joseph-stalin", "label": "Joseph Stalin", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "communist", "label": "Communist", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "grand-duchy-of-finland", "label": "Grand Duchy of Finland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vladimir-lenin", "label": "Vladimir Lenin", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1879, "year_label": "1879 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365404244#October–December", "title": "1879", "revid": 1365404244, "section": "Births › October–December"}}, {"year": 1917, "year_label": "1917 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 16", "text": "July 16–18 – July Days: Serious clashes occur in Petrograd; Vladimir Lenin escapes to Finland; Leon Trotsky is arrested.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519608#July", "title": "1917", "revid": 1373519608, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1926, "year_label": "1926 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503199#October", "title": "1926", "revid": 1373503199, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1927, "year_label": "1927 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 12", "text": "November 12 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370012373#November", "title": "1927", "revid": 1370012373, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#January", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#January", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#August", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 21", "text": "August 21 – Leon Trotsky, Russian communist revolutionary (assassinated) (b. 1879)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#August", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Deaths › August"}}]}