1. 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)
   - Leon Trotsky, Lev Davidovich Bronstein

Type of: Bolshevik, Bolshevist, revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter

Encyclopedia: Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940