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Friday, April 18, 2014

Interwar Period in Pictures- Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on 18 April 1937.

Leon Trotsky was born in the Ukraine in 1879 and assassinated in Mexico in 1940. Trotsky was not only a leader of the October revolution of 1917, commissar of foreign affairs in the first Soviet government, founder of the Red Army and commissar of war from 1918 to 1925, cofounder of the Communist International, member of the Politburo of the Soviet Communist party from 1918 to 1927, and Stalin’s chief antagonist and critic; he was also an outstanding thinker and original theorist of Marxism.
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