Lav Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was a prominent Marxist revolutionary and theorist, one of the key leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. He served as the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the Commander of the Red Army. Trotsky was a fierce critic of Joseph Stalin and was eventually expelled from the Communist Party and exiled from the Soviet Union. He continued to advocate for his vision of Trotskyism until his assassination in 1940 in Mexico by an agent of Stalin, highlighting the intense political rivalries of the time.