| Leon Trotsky  AKA Lev Davidovich Bronstein
Born: 26-Oct-1879 [1]
Birthplace: Yanovka, Ukraine
Died: 21-Aug-1940
Location of death: Mexico City, Mexico
Cause of death: Assassination
Remains: Buried, Trotsky House, Mexico City, Mexico
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist [2]
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Activist Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin Military service: Red Army
[1] Old Style, 26 October 1879. New Style, 7 November 1879.
[2] Though born into a Jewish family, he cast off his heritage. From his Diary in Exile: "I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist."
Father: David Bronshtein (farmer, illiterate)
Mother: Anna
Brother: Alexander (disowned Leon, executed in 1938)
Sister: Liza (d. 1924)
Sister: Olga (m. Lev Kamenev, a Bolshevik leader; she was executed 1941)
Wife: Aleksandra Sokolovskaya
Son: Leon Sedov (d. 16-Feb-1938)
Daughter: Zina
Tonsillectomy Berlin
Assassination Attempt 24-May-1940
Exiled to Siberia (1900)
Escaped from Prison 1904
Exiled to Siberia (1905)
Escaped from Prison 1907
Exiled 1928
Exiled 1929
House Arrest Norway (1936)
Treason acquitted
Jewish Ancestry
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Assassination of Trotsky (13-Oct-1972) · Himself
Rotten Library Page:
Leon Trotsky
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