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Leon Trotsky

Russian Revolutionary who was a member of the small Mezhrainotsy party, close to the Mensheviks. He joined the Bolsheviks in . During the October revolution he organised the military committees, a role he took up by leading the army during the Civil War. He was Lenin’s chosen successor, but went onto be part of a power struggle with Joseph Stalin.