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The 43 pages that link to Leon Trotsky, each with the reason it gives.

• Russian RevolutionRelated: His organizing helped secure the October takeover and defend the new regime.

• Joseph StalinCompared with: Their rivalry reveals the competing visions and political tactics of the post-Lenin struggle.

• Russian Civil WarRelated: His railway-based command system helped coordinate forces across distant fronts.

• Vladimir LeninCompared with: Trotsky and Lenin cooperated in the revolution but differed over strategy and later succession.

• October RevolutionRelated: He coordinated the Military Revolutionary Committee and defended the uprising’s timing.

• Russian Revolution of 1905Related: He helped lead the revolutionary council before its suppression and his arrest.

• Great PurgeRelated: Accusations of Trotskyist conspiracy supplied a recurring justification for purges and show trials.

• Treaty of Brest-LitovskRelated: As chief Soviet negotiator, he tried to end the war without accepting annexations.

• Red ArmyRelated: As war commissar, he built its command structure and enforced discipline.

• BolsheviksRelated: His role in Petrograd’s Military Revolutionary Committee helped coordinate the takeover.

• StalinismCompared with: Trotsky's defeat and exile mark the struggle over the revolution's direction and leadership.

• TrotskyismBroader topic: His writings and political struggle gave the tradition its name and central arguments.

• New Economic PolicyRelated: Trotsky criticized aspects of the NEP and pressed for faster industrial development and economic planning.

• Vyacheslav MolotovCompared with: Trotsky’s opposition to Stalin contrasts with Molotov’s lasting loyalty to Stalin’s leadership.

• Revolutionary socialismRelated: His theory of permanent revolution became a major current within revolutionary socialism.

• C. L. R. JamesRelated: James engaged with Trotskyist politics before developing a distinctive account of workers’ self-organization.

• Nikolai BukharinRelated: Bukharin and Stalin joined forces against Trotsky’s opposition within the Communist Party.

• Chen DuxiuRelated: Trotsky’s critiques influenced Chen’s later political positions.

• Frida KahloRelated: Their connection reflects her political networks and complicated personal life.

• Alexander KerenskyCompared with: Trotsky’s revolutionary organizing challenged Kerensky’s effort to preserve the government.

• MakhnovshchinaRelated: His government alternately allied with and fought the Makhnovist forces.

• Mikhail FrunzeRelated: Trotsky’s central role in the Red Army framed Frunze’s rise as a field commander.

• Petrograd SovietRelated: His presidency marked the Bolsheviks’ growing control of the Soviet.

• Socialism in One CountryCompared with: His challenge made the doctrine a dividing line in the post-Lenin succession struggle.

• Bolshevik RevolutionRelated: His organizational work was central to coordinating the uprising in Petrograd.

• New York IntellectualsRelated: His critique of Stalinism influenced the circle’s early political commitments.

• Allied intervention in the Russian Civil WarRelated: The Red Army's resistance helped make foreign intervention costly and politically unpopular.

• Nestor MakhnoRelated: Trotsky’s command opposed Makhnovist autonomy and later ordered its suppression.

• Alexander KolchakCompared with: Trotsky’s Red Army defeated Kolchak’s forces in the decisive Siberian retreat.

• Julius MartovRelated: Trotsky moved between Bolshevik and Menshevik alignments before joining Lenin’s party in 1917.

• Grigory ZinovievRelated: Zinoviev first joined Stalin in opposing Trotsky, then aligned with him against Stalin.

• Kronstadt RebellionRelated: Trotsky directed the government’s ultimatum and preparations to retake Kronstadt.

• Permanent revolutionBroader topic: He formulated and defended the theory across the Russian revolutionary period.

• Varlam ShalamovRelated: Shalamov’s first arrest followed his participation in a clandestine group commemorating Trotsky.

• Simone WeilCompared with: Weil’s encounter with Trotsky sharpened her criticism of revolutionary authoritarianism.

• Darkness at NoonRelated: Rubashov evokes the generation of revolutionaries whom Stalin’s regime purged or forced into exile.

• Lev KamenevRelated: Kamenev joined Zinoviev in opposing Trotsky before later aligning with him against Stalin.

• Nikolai OstrovskyCompared with: Ostrovsky’s idealized revolutionary narrative reflects the Soviet order that condemned Trotsky.

• Anti-Stalinist leftRelated: His critique of bureaucratic degeneration became a foundation for organized anti-Stalinist communism.

• Felix DzerzhinskyRelated: Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky served as prominent Bolshevik leaders during the civil war.

• Louise BryantRelated: Trotsky was among the revolutionary leaders Bryant encountered and reported on.

• History of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionRelated: His defeat in the succession struggle helped establish Stalin’s dominance.

• Ramón MercaderRelated: Trotsky's opposition to Stalin made him the target of the operation Mercader undertook.