Today in Trotskyist History
Political Movements Topics: Abolitionism - Bolshevism - Civil Rights - Communism - Feminism - Gay Rights - Marxism - Socialism - Women's Suffrage
Historical Events
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1908-10-03 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1917-10-23 - Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky
1917-11-08 - People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin
1918-01-28 - Trotsky becomes leader of Reds
1921-03-07 - Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1925-01-16 - Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense
1925-01-16 - Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council
1926-10-19 - Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers
1927-11-12 - Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1927-12-27 - Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
1928-01-10 - Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1929-01-18 - Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1929-01-31 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
1936-08-19 - Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
1940-08-20 - Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21
1960-05-06 - Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico
1982-07-08 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.
Famous Birthdays
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1879-10-26 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet) [OS]
1879-11-07 - Leon Davidovitsj Trotsky, [Leib Bronstein], Russ revolutionary [NS]
1907-04-03 - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography)
1914-02-07 - Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer (Trotsky)
Famous Deaths
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1940-08-21 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62
1978-10-18 - Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer of Trotsky, dies at 64
2006-07-20 - Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
