Leon Trotsky Photo Essay

BY: SASHA WESSELS, ANDRES PAEZ, ILYA TURCHANINOV

Trotsky as a young child

The school that Trotsky attended, Odessa

Trotsky during his teenage years

Trotsky was arrested and waited two years for trial in prison.

The Iskra that Trotsky helped write

Here we have stalin, Lenin and Trotsky

Trotsky while in exile in 1900

Leon Trotsky in France with Daughter Nina (1915)

Leon Trotsky's Passport photo (1915)

Coming Back to Russia May 4, 1917

Dec 27 1917: Delegation greeted by German officers at Brest-Litovsk

Trotsky In Uniform (1918)

Leon Trotsky working at his desk

Leon Trotsky (front, with arm raised) on the Polish (Eastern) front in the Russian Civil War (1919), where the Reds (Communists) battled the Whites (monarchists aided by foreign powers such as the United States).

Leon Trotsky Slaying the conunter revolutionary dragon

Trotsky with Bela Kun, Alfred Rosmer, Mikahil Frunze, and Gusev (1919)

Trotsky and Lev.B. Kamenev at the 2nd Congress

At a rally, at the Red Square

Trotsky speaking before the 2nd Congress of the Comintern

Trotsky and Lenin with the Red Army troops in 1921

Trotsky attending the 3rd World Congress of the Russian International

Trotsky working during his Turkish exile in 1928

Trotsky and his wife.

Trotsky enjoying a stroll and conversation with Diego Rivera, husband of Frida Kahlo.

Trotsky's assassination marked a tragic day in Russian history. He was killed in Mexico by Ramon Mercander.

Leon Trotsky chatting with his wife Natalia Sedova and son Lev.