Leon+Trotsky

**__LEON TROTSKY: EXILED FOR ETERNITY__**

 **__WHO WAS LEON TROTSKY?__** Before Leon Trotsky became involved in the Russian Marxist movement, he was born Lev Davidovich. Trotsky was raised by a Jewish family, who sent him to school where he learned to read and write in Russian. He used this early schooling once he entered later schooling where he begain getting involved in the Russian Revolutionary movement (1)

= __**BEFORE THE REVOLUTION:**__ =
 * ===== Trotsky graduated from school in 1897. It was this period that Trotsky began getting involved with the Marxist movement (1) =====
 * Involved in the South Russian Workers' Union, Trotsky ended up being exiled to Siberia for four years after he married Marxist, Alexandra Sokolovskaya (1)
 * Trotsky escaped after 2 years to Austria to Paris to London (2)
 * Joined Lenin in London in 1902 (2)
 * Helped publish Iskra, a journal for the exiled Marxists
 * After being exiled from France for anti-war writings, he traveled to the US before returning to Russia at the start of the revolution in 1917 (2)

__THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION:__
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 * ===== Joined the Bolshevik Part in August 1917 (2) =====
 * Appointed Commisar for Foreign Affairs (2)
 * After failing in the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference, he resigned and became Commissar of War (2)
 * End of 1920, proposed that military mobilization be used to ease civilian labor (1) Sound familiar?
 * Lenin died in 1924 starting the battle of Trotsky vs. Stalin (1)

__TROTSKY vs. STALIN:__

 * ===== Lenin wanted Trotsky to take over, but Stalin pushed him out (1) =====
 * Lost position of Commissar of War (2)
 * Stalin banished Trotsky from Soviet Union in 1929 (2)
 * Wrote many Anti-Stalin works (2)
 * Against Stalin
 * After his exile, he traveled to Mexico where he was killed by a man wielding an ice pick (1)
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__PARALLEL TO //ANIMAL FARM'S//, SNOWBALL:__



 * == Leon Trotsky == || == Snowball in //Animal Farm// ==

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 * "Lyova [Trotsky] found himself becoming more and more inclined towardMarxism" (1) || "The three [Snowball, Napolean and Squealer] had elaborated old Major's teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name Animalism"(3) ||
 * "... appointed to post of commissar of war. In that capacity he rebuilt the Red Army and directed the campaigns on four fronts during the Civil War" (1) || "Snowball, who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar's campaigns which he had found in the farmhouse, was in charge of defensive operations" (3) ||
 * "Toward the end of the Civil War in 1920, Trotsky proposed that the machinery for military mobilization be employed for the organization of civilian labor" (1) || "After surveying the ground, Snowball declared that this was just the place for a windmill, which could be made to operate dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power" (3) ||
 * "...Trotsky had only his personal brilliance and the army as bases for power... [Stalin] skillfully appealed to the class interest of the new bureaucratic elite" (1) || "Snowball was a more vivacoius pig than Napolean, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character" (3) ||
 * "In 1926 his efforts to forge an alliance with other opponents of Stalin failed, and in the following year he was ousted from the Communist Party" (2) || "One of [Napoleon's dogs] all but closed his jaws on Snowball's tail, but Snowball whisked it free just in time... and was seen no more" (3) ||

REFERENCES: 1. Leon Trotsky. (1998). In //Gale Student Resources.// (n.v., n.p.). Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from: http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/referencedetailspage

2. Leon Trotsky. (1993). In Dupuy Trevor, //International Military and Defense Encyclopedia.// (n.v., n.p.) Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. Retrieved from: http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/whic/referencedetailspage

3. Orwell, G. (1997). //Animal Farm//. (pp. 11-38). Evanston: McDougal Littell.

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