Was Leon Trotsky a compassionate man?

In 1918, during the Russian Civil War, V.I. Lenin had 3 people who he absolutely trusted: Yakov Sverdlov, Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky. They were all devout Communists. They all hated Capitalism. They were all able to kill for power. read more

Trotsky was too popular. It was safer to force him to run away. If Trotsky was cornered who knows what could happen. He was the de facto creator of the Red Army after all. Killing him would bring shock and backlash. There was even some risk of failing to kill him and facing a revolt within the party. read more

Trotsky made a brilliant beginning in Lessons of October and The Communist International after Lenin. He has more precisely elaborated it to the point where it now exists in exact outline form, in his Permanent Revolution, his History of the Russian Revolution and his writings on the subject of Germany, France, and Spain between 1930 and 1938. read more

leon trotsky - cynic and sadist Leon Trotsky was born with the name of Leiba Bronstein on the 25th October (the 7th of November in the Gregorian calendar) 1879 at 10:09 p.m. in the village of Yanovka near Bobrinets in the province of Kherson in the Ukraine. read more