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Leon Trotsky

1879 - 1940

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a key figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union, from which he was exiled in 1929 before his assassination in 1940. Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin were widely considered the two most prominent figures in the Soviet state from 1917 until Lenin's death in 1924. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Trotsky's ideas inspired a school of Marxism known as Trotskyism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leon Trotsky is the 100th most popular politician (down from 68th in 2019), the most popular biography from Ukraine and the most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was instrumental in the October Revolution of 1917, which led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Trotsky later opposed the Stalinist regime and was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929.

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Among politicians, Leon Trotsky ranks 100 out of 19,576. Before him are Pericles, Ronald Reagan, Queen Victoria, Mary II of England, Geta, and Caligula. After him are Caracalla, George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden, Julian, and Saddam Hussein.

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Among people born in 1879, Leon Trotsky ranks 3. Before him are Albert Einstein, and Joseph Stalin. After him are Owen Willans Richardson, Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Emperor Taishō, Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, Max von Laue, Margaret Sanger, and Emiliano Zapata. Among people deceased in 1940, Leon Trotsky ranks 1. After him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. J. Thomson, Selma Lagerlöf, Paul Klee, Neville Chamberlain, Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Arthur Harden, Nikolai Yezhov, Robert Wadlow, and Carl Bosch.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leon Trotsky ranks 1 out of 1,365. After him are Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Hurrem Sultan (1502), Nikolai Gogol (1809), Golda Meir (1898), Edgar de Wahl (1867), Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978).

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Among politicians born in Ukraine, Leon Trotsky ranks 1. After him are Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Hurrem Sultan (1502), Golda Meir (1898), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stepan Bandera (1909), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), and Ivan Mazepa (1639).

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