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He was sentenced to two years in prison.
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After two years in prison, Trotsky was exiled to Siberia. Trotsky met another co-revolutionary named Alexandra Lvovna who he married on the way to Siberia.
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Leon Trotsky escapes Siberia, leaving his wife and daughters behind.
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When the news of "Bloody Sunday" in Russia reached Trotsky, he decided to move back to Russia with his second wife Natalia Ivanovna. He spent most of the year writing phamphlet and newspaper articles to help encourage uprisings that challenged the tsar's power during the 1905 revolution.
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Trotsky is once again arrested and sent to Siberia for his actions in the revolution of 1905.
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After his trial, Trotsky escapes with a deer-pulled sleigh through the frozen landscape of Siberia.
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Trotsky quickly became the leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, joining the Bolshevik Party as an ally to Lenin. With the Revolution's success, Lenin became leader of the Soviet government and Trotsky was second in command.
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After Trotsky ended Russia's participation in WWI, he resigned and was appointed the people's commissioner of army and navy affairs.
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Trotsky was the successor that Lenin wanted but when Lenin died, Joseph Stalin outmaneuvered Trotsky politically. After that, Trotsky was slowly pushed out of important roles in the Soviet Union and. after time, pushed out of the country.
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On May 21, 1940, Soviet-Agents machine-gunned Trotsky's house. Although Trotsky and his family were home, they all survived. But later, on August 21, as he was sitting at his desk, Ramon Mercader punctured Trotsky's skull with a mountaineer ice pick. Trotsky died the next day.