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THE FREE PRESS
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Copyright 1996 by The Estate of Dmitri Volkogonov
Translation copyright 1996 by The Estate of Dmitri Volkogonov
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Volkogonov, Dmitri Antonovich
[Trotski. English]
Trotsky: the eternal revolutionary / Dmitri Volkogonov; translated and edited by Harold Shukman
p. cm.
Includes index.
eISBN 978-1-43910-573-3 (hardcover: alk paper)
1. Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940. 2. RevolutionariesSoviet UnionBiography. 3. Soviet UnionPolitics and government1917-1936. I. Shukman, Harold. II. Title.
DK254.T6V6513 1996
947.084092dc20
[B] 95-42315
CIP
(Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs are from the David King Collection, 90 St Pauls Road, London N1 2QP)
(Dates according to New Style or Western Calendar)
1879 | 7 November | Lev Davidovich Bronshtein (Trotsky) born at Yanovka, near Yelizavetgrad (Kirovograd) in Ukraine. |
| 21 December | Josef Stalin born at Gori, Georgia. | |
1886 | Trotsky begins primary school. | |
1888 | Enters St Pauls High School, Odessa. | |
1896 | Completes secondary education in Nikolaev. | |
1896-97 | Joins Social Democratic revolutionary group in Nikolaev. | |
1898 | March | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) formed in Minsk. Trotsky arrested and exiled to Siberia for two years. |
1899 | Trotsky marries Alexandra Sokolovskaya in prison. | |
1900 | Birth of Trotskys first daughter, Zinaida. Lenin and Martov start their newspaper Iskra (The Spark). | |
1902 | Birth of Trotskys second daughter, Nina. Trotsky escapes from exile, adopts the name of Trotsky and leaves the country illegally. Meets Lenin for the first time in London. | |
1903 | RSDLP splits at its Second Congress in London into Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, | |
| and Mensheviks, led by a group including Martov and Trotsky. Trotsky marries Natalya Sedova. | ||
1904-06 | Russo-Japanese War. | |
1905 | Trotsky returns to Russia and takes active part in first Russian revolution. | |
| October | Tsar concedes political reform, including a legislative assembly, the State Duma. | |
| December | Trotsky elected President of St Petersburg Soviet. | |
1906 | Trial of Trotsky and other members of St Petersburg Soviet. Birth of Trotskys first son, Lev. | |
1907 | Trotsky exiled to Western Siberia. Escapes abroad. First meeting with Stalin at Fifth Party Congress in London. | |
1908 | Birth of Trotskys second son, Sergei. | |
1910 | Death of Trotskys mother, Anna Bronshtein. Trotsky establishes his independent newspaper Pravda , which fails for lack of funds. | |
1912-14 | Trotsky works as war correspondent in the Balkans and reporter in Paris for the newspaper Kievskaya mysl . | |
1914 | Trotsky leaves Vienna for Zurich and later Paris. | |
| August | Russia enters First World War. | |
1915-16 | Trotsky collaborates with Menshevik Internationalists in Paris on newspaper Nashe slovo . | |
1916 | Trotsky expelled from France to Spain, where he is arrested. | |
1917 | Arrives in New York. | |
| March | Tsar abdicates. Provisional Government formed in Petrograd. | |
| March-May | Trotsky leaves for Russia. Arrested in Halifax, Canada. Arrives in Petrograd. | |
| August | Trotsky enters Bolshevik Party at Sixth Party | |
| Congress and becomes member of Central Committee. | ||
| August-September | Trotsky and other Bolsheviks arrested on charges of working for Germany. Soon released. | |
| September | Trotsky becomes chairman of Petrograd Soviet. | |
| October | Military Revolutionary Committee created with Trotsky as chairman. Trotsky appointed Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs in first Soviet government. | |
| December | The Cheka, the Soviet political police, formed. Bolshevik-German armistice. | |
1918 | January | Soviet-German peace talks at Brest-Litovsk. Trotsky heads Soviet delegation. Constituent Assembly dispersed by Bolsheviks after one session. |
| February | Chicherin replaces Trotsky as Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs and head of Brest-Litovsk delegation. | |
| March | Brest-Litovsk peace treaty signed with Germany. Trotsky appointed Peoples Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs. Red Army founded. | |
| April | Civil war begins in Russia. | |
| July | Tsar and family executed in Yekaterinburg. | |
| September | Trotsky appointed chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council of the Republic. | |
| November | Allied-German armistice. | |
1919 | March | Third Communist International (Comintern) founded in Moscow. Trotsky elected member of Comintern Executive Committee (ECCI). |
1920 | April | Poles invade Soviet Ukraine. October Armistice with Poland. |
| November | Civil war ends with defeat and evacuation of White armies in Crimea. | |
1921 | March | Anti-Bolshevik uprising of Kronstadt |
| garrison. Tenth Party Congress adopts Lenins New Economic Policy and bans the formation of factions in the Party. | ||
1922 | February | Cheka renamed GPU. Trotskys father, David Bronshtein, dies of typhus. |
| April | Stalin elected General Secretary of the Party. | |
| May | Lenins first stroke. | |
| December | Lenins second stroke. Formation of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. | |
1923 | March | Lenins third stroke. |
| April | Twelfth Party Congress. | |
| October | Trotsky writes to Central Committee and Central Control Commission. Statement of forty-six of Trotskys supporters to the Politburo. | |
1924 | January | Lenin dies. Trotsky, convalescing in the Caucasus, is absent from his funeral. |
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