Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary who led the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War. Learn the history behind this revolutionary hero.
Leon Trotsky was a Russian communist revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and Soviet politician. He served as the head of the Bolshevik party's military wing during the Russian Revolution, then concurrently as Foreign Affairs Commissariat, People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, and People's Commissariat of Army and Navy Affairs.