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Leon Trotsky

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Noun1.Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)


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The movement now called "neo-conservatism" actually gestated within a group of former disciples of Leon Trotsky, one of the founders of the Soviet Union and creator of the Red Army.
Leon Trotsky publishes The History of the Russian Revolution.
He quotes Leon Trotsky (sounding a lot like Gandhi, as Schell points out) on the Russian Revolution: "Not the ability of the masses to kill others but their great readiness them selves to die--this secures in the last instance the victory of the popular uprising.
 
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