Inspiration for Orwell's Snowball

• Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army
• Lenin frenemy
• Communist leader Leon
• Geoffrey Rush, in ''Frida''
• Russian revolutionary, assassinated, 1940
• One of the original Politburo members
• Bolshevik biggie
• Leon —, early Marxist
• Political figure on whom Snowball is based in "Animal Farm"

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...