Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
8 dated entries naming Leon Trotsky, drawn from 7 separate years between 1879 CE and 1940 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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- 1917July 16–18 – July Days: Serious clashes occur in Petrograd; Vladimir Lenin escapes to Finland; Leon Trotsky is arrested.source
- 1926October 23 – Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.source
- 1927November 12 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.source
- 1928January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family.source
- 1937January 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.source
- 1940August 20 – Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader.source
- 1940August 21 – Leon Trotsky, Russian communist revolutionary (assassinated) (b. 1879)source
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