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1 day ago · Leon Trotsky soon reformed the Red Army, concluding the first of two military alliances with the anarchists. In June the Red Army first checked Kolchak's advance. After a series of engagements, assisted by an Insurgent Army offensive against White supply lines, the Red Army defeated Denikin's and Yudenich's armies in October and November.
1 day ago · Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Jugashvili; [g] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1941 until ...
5 days ago · The conflict centers around two pivotal figures: Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Trotsky, originally Lev Bronstein, was a Ukrainian Jewish Marxist revolutionary and a significant figure in the 1905 Russian Revolution. He joined the Bolshevik Party shortly before the successful 1917 revolution, quickly rising to a position of influence.
5 days ago · By David Brooks. Opinion Columnist. I felt like I was talking with Leon Trotsky in the years before the Russian Revolution. I was sitting in Steve Bannon’s Washington living room in 2019. His ...
1 day ago · Lenin's illness intensified the struggle between factions within the Communist Party. At the top echelons, there was a ruthless struggle for succession. Within the Politburo, Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev formed a "troika" against Leon Trotsky. After Trotsky's defeat, Stalin turned against his former allies in the troika.
1 day ago · Leon Trotsky, in 1929, shortly before being driven out of the Soviet Union The term " purge " in Soviet political slang was an abbreviation of the expression purge of the Party ranks . In 1933, for example, the Party expelled some 400,000 people.
12 hours ago · — Leon Trotsky, “Their Morals and Ours” “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” — Winston S. Churchill .
