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Leon Trotsky is born
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At age 17, Trotsky becomes interested in Marxism and joins the Social Democrats.
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At age 19, Leon is arrested for helping organize a worker's union.
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Trotsky is imprisoned in Siberia for two years and then sentenced exile for four years because of doing illegal underground work for the Democrats.
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When in Siberia, Trotsky escapes and meets Lenin, a supporter of the Democrats, in England.
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Leon joins the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Labor Party.
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The Second Congress of the Social Democratic Labor Party splits and Leon sides with Lenin.
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Trosky returns to Russia, his homeland, from England and is elected chairman of the St .Petersburg Soviet.
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Because Leon was active in the revolution he is sent back to Siberia for life...in exile. There, Trotsky writes a pemanent Socialist Revolution, explaining that a revolution in Russia would be followed by many similar revolutions, but in different countries. That would later be an important goal in the Communist party.
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When Trotsky is in exile for participating in the 1905 revolution he escapes, again.
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October 1907, Leon becomes the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Commitee.
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July 1917, Lenin goes into hiding
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Trotsky recruits and trains five million troops, Red Guards, and is victorious over the Whites in Russia's Civil War.
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Trotsky's political career in the Communist Party is followed by getting kicked out.
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After being kicked out of the Communist Party he is sent into exile...again.
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Trotsky and his family are deported from Russia and eventually settle down in Mexico.
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At age 61, Leon Trotsky is brutally murdered in his Mexican home by Stalin's assasins.