Tag: Trotsky

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5th May 1912: Russian Communist newspaper Pravda first published

• 5th May 2023
• Tagged as: Communism, Lenin, Newspaper, Propaganda, Russia, Stalin, Trotsky

Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first published.

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12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

• 12th November 2022
• Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Communist, Kamenev, Lenin, Russian Revolution, Stalin, Trotsky, USSR, Zinoviev

Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

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20th August 1940: Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice axe in Mexico

• 20th August 2022
• Tagged as: Assassination, Communism, Mexico, Stalin, Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded with an ice axe by Spanish communist Ramón Mercader.

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7th November 1917: Bolshevik Red Guards take control of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg

• 7th November 2021
• Tagged as: Lenin, Provisional Government, Red Guards, Revolution, Russia, Russian Revolution, St Petersburg, Trotsky

The ‘storming of the Winter Palace’ presents the takeover of the Winter Palace as a huge battle. However, this popular image is a fabrication.

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7th November 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution

• 7th November 2019
• Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Lenin, Revolution, Russia, Russian Revolution, Trotsky, Tsar, USSR

On the 7^th November 1917, Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in a defining event of the Bolshevik Revolution.