Leftist who's gently run media empire

• Political figure on whom Snowball is based in "Animal Farm"
• Lenin contemporary
• He was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)
• Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army
• One of the original Politburo members
• Russian Revolution leader
• Dead Red head
• Geoffrey Rush, in ''Frida''
• Red Army founder

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The surname Trotsky , Trotskiy , or Trotski is a toponymic surname derived from the Polish name Troki of the Lithuanian city of Trakai , literally meaning "of Troki" or "from Troki". It may be either the Russified form of the Polish noble name Trocki or ...