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(i)Describe the main events in the career of Leon Trotsky Trotsky was sent to Odessa by his father, where he became an outstanding student in a German secondary school. He became a populist at an early age, and in late 1896, he was strongly attracted to Marxism. Later, after escaping from his first imprisonment, he went to London and joined up with Lenin. After the split in the Russian Social Democratic party, he became a …

…later, he was dropped from the Central Committee. In January 1929 Trotsky was banished from the territory of the Soviet Union. In 1941, an unknown person, but probably a Stalin agent undercover murdered him. Trotsky was an indefatigable worker, a rousing public speaker and a decisive administrator. On the other hand, he was not successful as a leader of men, partly because he allowed his brilliance and arrogance to antagonize the lesser lights in the Communist movement.