Leon Trotsky
Born: 26 October 1879
Birthplace: Yanovka, Ukraine
Death: 21 August 1940 (assassination by ice axe)
Best Known As: V.I. Lenin's right-hand man
Name at birth: Lev Davidovich Bronstein
A key figure in the creation of the Soviet Union, Trotsky was later unseated and expelled by the ruthless Joseph Stalin. As a young man Trotsky became a disciple of Karl Marx and a friend of future Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin. A powerful writer and political thinker, Trotsky used his pen to oppose the rule of Czar Nicholas II and so spent much of his adult life in prison or in foreign exile, writing for communist newspapers and journals. He was Lenin's right-hand man in the Russian Revolution of 1917; Trotsky became commissar of war (1918-25) and organized the victorious Red Army in the civil war that followed. After the formation of the Soviet Union and then Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky lost out in a power struggle with Stalin; he was exiled to Kazakhstan in 1927 and expelled to Turkey in 1929. In 1937 Trotsky settled in Mexico at the behest of artist Diego Rivera. He was assassinated at his villa in 1940 by a probable agent of Stalin, Ramon Mercader, who posed as a friend of Trotsky's and then killed him with the blow of an ice axe to his head.
He used the name Leon Trotsky while escaping from Russian prison in Siberia in 1902, and kept the name for the rest of his life... Trotsky was played by Richard Burton in The Assassination of Leon Trotsky (1972) and by Geoffrey Rush in Frida, the 2002 film about Diego Rivera's wife Frida Kahlo... Trotsky was represented by Snowball the pig in George Orwell's allegorical 1945 novel Animal Farm.
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Liv Ullmann
Liv Johanne Ullmann (born December 16, 1938) is a Norwegian actress, author and film director. She played lead roles in nine films by Ingmar Bergman, with whom she has a daughter, author Linn Ullmann.
Liv Ullman was born in Tokyo (where her engineer father was working at the time), and grew up in Trondheim, Norway. She has been living in New York City for many years.
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