Caption: A Still in the film, which was dedicated to the October Revolution. Lev Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940) was the founder of the Red Army, and the leader of the 1905 and 1917 Russian Scientific Socialist Revolutions.
Born: November 7, 1879
Star sign: Scorpio
Height: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Source: IMDB
Communist leader. He was chief theorist, a leader in both the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions alongside V.I. Lenin. As commissar for foreign affairs, Trotsky arranged the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany. He next became head of the Red Army, killing over a million of White Army officers and Cossacks, upon orders from V.I. Lenin. He drafted ...