Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

About Leon Trotsky

Portrait of Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronstein (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and establishment of the Soviet Union. Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin...

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