He wasn't, Stalin had him assassinated in 1940 while in exile in Mexico before the USSR was attacked by Germany.
he lead the red army in victory over the white army in the russian civil war and was supposed to be next in power, but stalin's supporters made sure he didn't. soon he was sent to exile were he was murdered in Mexico on August 21, 1940 with an ice axe.
Leon Trotsky commanded the Red Army.
After World War 1, the Russian Revolution was won by Communist forces. Vladimir Lenin was the new leader, with Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky competing with each other for power in an effort to become Lenin's successor upon his death. Stalin was eventually successful, resulting in Trotsky's exile and assassination.
After the October Revolution put the Bolsheviks in power, civil war broke out to remove them. Leon Trotsky was made People's Commissar of War and given the task of creating an army to fight against the other side. Trotsky was responsible for organizing the Red Army from Bolshevik militia, army units that supported the Bolsheviks and others into an effective fighting force. He was also good at strategy and tactics in the war. He traveled by armored train from one place to another to direct operations in those areas as needed. He is credited with being the main reason the Red forces defeated the opposing White forces rather than just being a help to win the civil war.
Before world war 2, Spain was involved in a civil war.
leon trotsky
By an armoured train
He blames all countries and their imperialist intentions. Not Hitler, like everyone else.
Leon Trotsky accused Joseph Stalin of being a tyrant and demanded democracy. Although Lenin wanted Trotsky to assume leadership after his death, Stalin's supporters out-maneuvered Trotsky. Stalin suppressed Lenin's will and manipulated Trotsky out of his post of Commissioner of War as well as out of the Politburo.
Writing from exile, Trotsky believed that World War Two would be the causal factor for a true workers' revolution in the USSR. The Stalinist bureaucracy would crumble under the pressure of the war and a true Soviet "democracy" , in a Trotsky meaning of "democracy" would emerge with the fall of Stalin.
Leon Trotsky led the Petrograd Soviet at the time of the October Revolution in 1917. He also led the Red Army as Commissar of War during the Russian Civil War. He never did lead Russia or the Soviet Union at any time.
Leon Trotsky was a large reason why they won the civil war, becaue he was the Commissar of War and the one who organized the Red Army into a coherent military force. He was certainly not the only reason though, since a large part of the Russian populace supported the Bolsheviks and the Red Army against the White forces.
Because Stalin had him processed out of the films, and pictures.All thid after the Bolshevik split after the Civil War!
he lead the red army in victory over the white army in the russian civil war and was supposed to be next in power, but stalin's supporters made sure he didn't. soon he was sent to exile were he was murdered in Mexico on August 21, 1940 with an ice axe.
By far his biggest achievement was as Minister for War. He played the key role in establishing the Red Army and an important role in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21 - and the explusion of western armies of intervention.
Leon Trotsky commanded the Red Army.
Leon Trotsky became Commissar of War and organized it into an efficient military force that defeated the opposition forces in the Russian Civil War.