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Birth of Trotsky
Leon Trotsky is born -
Becoming a Democrat
At age 17, Trotsky becomes interested in Marxism and joins the Social Democrats. -
Go to Jail!
At age 19, Leon is arrested for helping organize a worker's union. -
Doing hard time.
Trotsky is imprisoned in Siberia for two years and then sentenced exile for four years because of doing illegal underground work for the Democrats. -
Meeting Lenin!
When in Siberia, Trotsky escapes and meets Lenin, a supporter of the Democrats, in England. -
Labor Party at the Democrats!
Leon joins the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Labor Party. -
Side o' Lenin
The Second Congress of the Social Democratic Labor Party splits and Leon sides with Lenin. -
Vote for Chairman!
Trosky returns to Russia, his homeland, from England and is elected chairman of the St .Petersburg Soviet. -
Social Viva Revolution!
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. -
Escape!
When Trotsky is in exile for participating in the 1905 revolution he escapes, again. -
Vote Military Chairman!
October 1907, Leon becomes the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Commitee. -
Finding Lenin!
July 1917, Lenin goes into hiding -
Red on White!
Trotsky recruits and trains five million troops, Red Guards, and is victorious over the Whites in Russia's Civil War. -
Getting the boot!
Trotsky's political career in the Communist Party is followed by getting kicked out. -
Finding Trotsky
After being kicked out of the Communist Party he is sent into exile...again. -
You're out!
Trotsky and his family are deported from Russia and eventually settle down in Mexico. -
Unrelated title (Leon dies)
At age 61, Leon Trotsky is brutally murdered in his Mexican home by Stalin's assasins.