Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (kwa Kirusi Лев Дави́дович Тро́цкий, Lev Davidovich Trotsky, ubini wa awali Бронште́йн, Bronshtein) alikuwa Myahudi wa Urusi (Yanovka, leo nchini Ukraina, 7 Novemba 1879 – Coyoacán, Mexico City, Meksiko 21 Agosti 1940) maarufu kwa mwanamapinduzi wa kikomunisti.

Trotsky mwaka 1921.

Baada ya kuwa kiongozi wa kwanza wa Jeshi Jekundu na kushiriki uongozi wa Umoja wa Kisovyeti, alishindana na Stalin akaondolewa madarakani (1927) na hatimaye kufukuzwa nchini (1929).

Akiendelea kupinga siasa ya Stalin kutoka Meksiko, aliuawa baada ya majaribio yake mengi kushindikana.

Ujumbe wake hasa ulikuwa kwamba mapinduzi yanatakiwa kuwa ya kudumu.

Baadhi ya maandishi yake

• The Real Situation in Russia, Max Eastman, tr. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928
• 1905
• Autobiography, 1879–1917.
• Between Red and White
• Fascism What It Is and How To Fight It
• History of the Russian Revolution
• In Defence of Marxism
• In Defence of October
• Literature and Revolution
• Marxism in Our Time
• My Life, Maisha yake alivyoyasimulia mwenyewe
• The Permanent Revolution
• Platform of the Joint Opposition
• Problems of the Chinese Revolution
• Terrorism and Communism
• The Case of Leon Trotsky
• The First Five Years of the Communist International, Volume 1
• The First Five Years of the Communist International, Volume 2
• The Lessons of October
• The New Course
• The Revolution Betrayed
• The Stalin School of Falsification
• The Third International After Lenin
• The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution
• Their Morals and Ours
• Trotsky's Military Writings, Volume 3
• Trotsky's Military Writings, Volume 4
• Trotsky's Military Writings, Volume 5
• War and the International