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Trotsky, Leon
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1879-1940
History
Leon Trotsky, Communist theorist and government official, was born in 1879, in Yankova, Ukraine. He served under Lenin as commissar of foreign affairs and of war, 1914-1924. He lost the struggle for power with Stalin after Lenin's death and was exiled. He was assassinated in Mexico on 20 August 1940.
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RC0724
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2015-6-11
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W. Laufs
