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Ten Days That Shook the World · Character

Leon Trotsky

Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet's Military Revolutionary Committee, he is the organizer who turns revolutionary rhetoric into guard posts, orders, and the mechanics of taking power.

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Also known as Trotsky, Bronstein, L. D. Bronstein, L. Trotsky, Leon Trotsky

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Listed as a leader of the Bolsheviki and formerly a member of the Mensheviki Internationalists.
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Where Lenin supplies the doctrine, Trotsky supplies the timetable, coordinating the Military Revolutionary Committee that will decide whether the Provisional Government falls or holds. Reed catches him in the thick of…

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ANAnatoly NeratovMUMikhail UritskyVLVladimir LeninAKAlexander Kere…LKLev KamenevLTLeon Trotsky

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Character groups

  • Anti-Bolshevik and Bolshevik Leaders
  • Bolshevik and Menshevik Figures
  • Protagonist
  • Diverse Revolutionary Participants

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SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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