Trotsky
18
6.8
- proper noun
- /ˈtrɒtski/
:
Trotski
- To use the words of Leon Trotsky, "The proletariat does not recognize national borders."
- Leon Trotsky
- Lenin and Trotsky
- Stalin and Trotsky
But since Trotsky was Jewish, his real name is Lev Bronstein, you can't you?
- But since Trotsky was Jewish, his real name is Lev Bronstein, you can't you?
- And so, you know, at that stage it looks at the Bolsheviks were finished, Trotsky was arrested, most of their leaders were arrested and Lenin was in hiding.
- Well, not as some who claimed the Bolsheviks were a Jewish conspiracy to hide Trotsky's Jewish background.
- My father came to Mexico as an orphan because and Trotsky basically had taken the responsibility of him.
- Lenin and Trotsky, for their part, were not against a piece on bad terms for the Russians.
- But Trotsky said it well, you know, you may not be interested in war, but war may be interested in you or something along those lines.
Examples
-
Reading it postmortem, Leon Trotsky observes in his History of the Russian Revolution:
Academic text (1994) -
Entirely characteristic was Trotsky's response when someone asked him whether he considered himself a Russian or a Jew.
Academic text (1991) -
l know who Trotsky was.
-
But the Commissar for war, Leon Trotsky, was not willing to wait.
-
Commenting on the Spanish Civil War, Trotsky observed that the rhetoric in London was far more extreme than the reality in Barcelona.
Academic text (2015) -
Reading Lenin's works of the time, as well as Trotsky's, gives us this impression.
Academic text (1995) -
Such ideas were for Lenin, Trotsky, and ultimately Stalin to develop after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Blog text (11) -
On a whim, she queried the encyclopedia for Leon Trotsky and found him missing in action.
Fiction book (2001) -
To visualize the Russia of Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky in terms of Dostoevsky is virtually impossible.
Academic text (1991) -
Leon Trotsky was a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
Synonyms
A Russian revolutionary leader who helped build the Red Army and was later killed in Mexico
Surface Forms
Etymology
Trotsky is a name the Russian revolutionary chose for himself; his birth name was Bronstein. One popular story says he took the name from a prison guard and another says it came from a place name. That's why Trotsky is the public name we now use for the leader Lev Bronstein.