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Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician. Initially a supporter of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he joined Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks shortly before the October Revolution in 1917.

Following the Bolshevik victory, Trotsky became a leading figure in the Soviet government, serving as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army. He played a key role in the Russian Civil War.

After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky became embroiled in a power struggle with Joseph Stalin. Trotsky advocated for world revolution and criticized Stalin's policy of "Socialism in One Country." He also argued for greater democracy within the Communist Party and opposed the increasing bureaucratization of the Soviet state.

By the late 1920s, Stalin had consolidated his power, and Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 and exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929. He continued to advocate for his revolutionary ideas from abroad, founding the Fourth International in 1938 as a counterweight to the Stalin-dominated Comintern.

Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940 by Ramón Mercader, a Spanish communist and NKVD agent, acting on Stalin's orders.

Trotsky's theoretical contributions include the theory of permanent revolution, which argued that in underdeveloped countries, the bourgeois-democratic revolution would inevitably lead to a socialist revolution, and that the socialist revolution must spread internationally to survive. His writings and ideas continue to influence socialist and Marxist movements around the world.