# Trotsky — The Bolshevik Myth character guide

> Trotsky in The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0005-iv-moscow

## Who they are

Bolshevik leader and founder of the Red Army.

## In the story

### [The Bolshevik Myth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/the-bolshevik-myth)

Trotsky is mentioned in the context of the regime's militaristic and authoritarian policies.

### [XIII: Lenin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xiii-lenin)

Mentioned as a resident of the Kremlin and contrasted with Lenin's character.

### [Back in Petrograd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xv-back-in-petrograd)

Keynoted the Ninth Congress with push for militarization of labor and one-man management.

### [XXIII: In Soviet Institutions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxiii-in-soviet-institutions)

Mentioned as having outlawed Makhno after his mutiny opened the front to Denikin.

### [XXIV: Yossif the Emigrant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxiv-yossif-the-emigrant)

Quoted as saying it were better the Ukraine be taken by Denikin than allow Makhno to continue there.

### [XXV: Nestor Makhno](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxv-nestor-makhno)

Mentioned as charging Makhno with opening the front to Denikin and as ordering Makhno's forces to the Polish front.

### [XXVII: Further South](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxvii-further-south)

Admired by the Communist commissar for his 'iron broom' methods of revolutionary force.

### [In Various Walks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxx-in-various-walks)

Referenced by a Jewish elder as an example of Jews in government, but dismissed as not truly Jewish.

### [Dark People](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxxiii-dark-people)

Noted as the intellectual leader of the 'South Russian Union' in Nikolayev's revolutionary history.

### [XXXV: Returning to Petrograd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxxv-returning-to-petrograd)

Ordered the disarmament of Makhno's forces after they helped defeat Wrangel.

### [Early Days of 1921](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxxvii-early-days-of-1921)

Trotsky dissents from Lenin, demanding a 'labor front' under military discipline.

### [Kronstadt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxxviii-kronstadt)

Trotsky issues an ultimatum to Kronstadt to surrender, threatens to 'shoot you like pheasants,' and later denounces Thiers and Gallifet while celebrating the Paris Commune.

### [Last Links in the Chain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxxix-last-links-in-the-chain)

Trotsky is mentioned indirectly in the context of the Bolshevik leadership and the Comintern.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/endnotes)

Referenced in endnote about General Slastchev-Krinski being sent by Trotsky to subdue Karelian peasants.

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