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Leon Trotsky

1879 - 1940

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, journalist, and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was widely considered the most prominent Soviet figure and was de facto second-in-command during the early years of the Russian Soviet Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leon Trotsky has received more than 13,840,807 page views. His biography is available in 129 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 124 in 2019). Leon Trotsky is the 46th most popular politician (up from 47th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 1st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was instrumental in the October Revolution of 1917, which led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Trotsky later opposed the Stalinist regime and was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leon Trotsky ranks 46 out of 15,577. Before him are Franz Joseph I of Austria, Akhenaten, Pericles, Maria Theresa, Ulysses S. Grant, and Nero. After him are Peter the Great, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Angela Merkel, Saddam Hussein, Boris Yeltsin, and Nebuchadnezzar II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Leon Trotsky ranks 3. Before him are Albert Einstein and Joseph Stalin. After him are Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Emperor Taishō, Franz von Papen, Otto Hahn, Emiliano Zapata, Max von Laue, Owen Willans Richardson, and Alma Mahler. Among people deceased in 1940, Leon Trotsky ranks 1. After him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Selma Lagerlöf, Neville Chamberlain, Paul Klee, Mikhail Bulgakov, Walter Benjamin, J. J. Thomson, Robert Wadlow, Nikolai Yezhov, Emma Goldman, and Carl Bosch.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leon Trotsky ranks 2 out of 1,083. Before him are Hurrem Sultan (1502). After him are Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Nikolai Gogol (1809), Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Stepan Bandera (1909), Ilya Repin (1844), Golda Meir (1898), Kazimir Malevich (1879), and John III Sobieski (1629).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Leon Trotsky ranks 2. Before him are Hurrem Sultan (1502). After him are Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Stepan Bandera (1909), Golda Meir (1898), John III Sobieski (1629), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), and Leonid Kuchma (1938).

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