Leon Trotsky

Known for

Acting

Gender

Male

Born

November 7, 1879

Age at death

60

Died

August 21, 1940

From

Ianovka, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, politician, journalist and political theorist. He was a central figure in the establishment of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. Ideologically a Marxist, Trotsky's writings and thought inspired a major school of the ideology known as Trotskyism.