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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, politician, and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and establishment of the Soviet Union. Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin were widely considered the two most prominent Soviet figures, and Trotsky 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 14,569,157 page views. His biography is available in 134 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 129 in 2019). Leon Trotsky is the 68th most popular politician (down from 46th in 2019), the most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 2nd in 2019) and the 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 68 out of 19,576. Before him are Franklin Pierce, Frederick the Great, Richard I of England, Selim II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. After him are Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Benjamin Franklin, Narendra Modi, and Nicolae Ceaușescu.

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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, Max von Laue, Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, Francis Picabia, Emiliano Zapata, and Alma Mahler. Among people deceased in 1940, Leon Trotsky ranks 1. After him are Selma Lagerlöf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Klee, Walter Benjamin, Neville Chamberlain, J. J. Thomson, Mikhail Bulgakov, Robert Wadlow, Nikolai Yezhov, Carl Bosch, and Peter Behrens.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leon Trotsky ranks 1 out of 1,365. After him are Hurrem Sultan (1502), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Golda Meir (1898), Nikolai Gogol (1809), Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Stepan Bandera (1909), John III Sobieski (1629), Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Joseph Conrad (1857), and Hafsa Sultan (1479).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Leon Trotsky ranks 1. After him are Hurrem Sultan (1502), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Golda Meir (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), John III Sobieski (1629), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), and Leonid Kuchma (1938).

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