		Purged Russian Communists: Expelled Members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky, Vyacheslav Molotov, Nikolai Bukharin Paperback. Books LLC 2010-06-13. ISBN 9781158139071
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Expelled Members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky, Vyacheslav Molotov, Nikolai Bukharin, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Lazar Kaganovich, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Roy Medvedev, Mikhail Lifshitz, Heydar Huseynov, Joseph Berger-Barzilai, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Valentin Pavlov, Demyan Bedny, Nikolai Vlasik, Gennady Yanayev, Voldemar Aussem, Dmitry Yazov, Boris Pugo, Nadezhda Joffe, Abdurrauf Fitrat, Oleg Baklanov, Vasily Starodubtsev. Excerpt: Leon Trotsky (Russian: ·), Ukrainian: (Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Lyev, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) 7 November 1879 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Russian: ), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union. An early advocate of Red Army intervention against European fascism, Trotsky also opposed Stalin's peace agreements with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. As the head of the Fourth International, Trotsky continued in exile to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, and was eventually assassinated in Mexico, by Ramón Mercader, a Soviet agent. Trotsky's ideas form the basis of Trotskyism, a term coined as early as 1905 by his opponents in order to separat... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17888

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