Definitions for "Trotsky"
Leon (1879-1940) Leading Bolshevik politician. Led the Soviet negotiations for a separate peace with Germany that were concluded at Brest-Litovsk in March 1918 and, from 1919 onwards, successfully organised the Red Army in its struggle against the counter-revolutionary 'Whites'.
Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)