Leon Trotsky - Exile, Assassination, Revolution: In January 1928 Trotsky and his principal followers were exiled to remote parts of the Soviet Union, Trotsky himself being assigned to Alma-Ata (now Almaty) in Central Asia. In January 1929 Trotsky was ban
Leon Trotsky, communist theorist and agitator who unsuccessfully struggled against Joseph Stalin for power in the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin’s death.