Background of Leon Trotsky

  • Clever man, organiser of Red Army.
  • Popular among ordinary Party members.
  • His vain and proud character made him unpopular in the Poluburo.
  • Believed that USSR should continue with the New Economic Policy and industrialise as soon as possible.
  • Proposed 'Permanent Revolution'
  • Was expelled from Party in 1927.
  • Deported to Central Asia in 1928.
  • He was exiled from the USSR in 1929.
  • Murdered by Stalin's secret police in Mexico in 1940.