Leon Trotsky Biography and Timeline — Page 3

Demonstrations

Calls for the re-unification of the Bolsheviks & Mensheviks. Calls for an end to the war & for revolution

Role range: 1917-1918

Menshevik Party

Calls for the re-unification of the Bolsheviks & Mensheviks

Role range: 1917-1918

Exile of Leon Trotsky

Trotsky leaves exile in New York to return to Russia

Role range: 1917-1918

Amherst Internment

Is detained by British authorities in Canada while returning from New York to revolutionary Russia.

Role range: 1914-1918

Return to Petrograd

Returns to Petrograd after release from British detention and immediately re-enters revolutionary politics.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Congress of Soviets, 1st

Opposes moderate Soviet support for coalition government.

Role range: 1917-1936 – 1917-1917

June Demonstration

Speaks for a more radical Soviet policy.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Warns radicals that an isolated uprising would be dangerous.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Arrest of Leon Trotsky

Workers and soldiers in Petrograd demand the Soviet takes power, sporadic fighting results and the Soviet restores order with troops brought back from the front, Trotsky is arrested & Lenin goes into hiding

Role range: 1917-1918

July Days

Protects Chernov from hostile sailors during the crisis.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Intervenes to protect Chernov from enraged demonstrators.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Urges demonstrators not to provoke isolated confrontation.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Defends the movement while opposing reckless confrontation.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Remains in Petrograd as arrests of Bolsheviks begin.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Condemns slanders against Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Challenges the accusation that Bolshevik leaders are German agents.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Is increasingly targeted by the authorities after defending Lenin.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Workers and soldiers demand Soviet power as Trotsky supports restraint.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Bolshevik Military Organisation

Both Trotsky and Zinoviev argued that the street protests remain peaceful so the Bolshevik Military Organisation organize the demonstration.

Role range: 1917-1918

Bolshevik Military Organisation

Coming out in support of the street demonstrations.

Role range: 1917-1918

Bolshevik Military Organisation

Mobilizing reinforcements from the front lines and dispatching armored cars to capture key posts including bridges and the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Role range: 1917-1918

Bolshevik Military Organisation

Under the pressure of what seemed like a developing mass demonstration of workers and soldiers in the streets, the leadership of the Bolshevik Military Organisation, the Petersburg Committee and later on the Central Committee, reversed their decision.

Role range: 1917-1918

Bolshevik Party

Both Trotsky and Zinoviev argued that the street protests remain peaceful so the Bolshevik Military Organisation organize the demonstration.

Role range: 1917-1918

Bolshevik Party

Coming out in support of the street demonstrations.

Role range: 1917-1918

Bolshevik Party

Mobilizing reinforcements from the front lines and dispatching armored cars to capture key posts including bridges and the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Role range: 1917-1918

Bolshevik Party

Under the pressure of what seemed like a developing mass demonstration of workers and soldiers in the streets, the leadership of the Bolshevik Military Organisation, the Petersburg Committee and later on the Central Committee, reversed their decision.

Role range: 1917-1918

Petersburg Committee

Under the pressure of what seemed like a developing mass demonstration of workers and soldiers in the streets, the leadership of the Bolshevik Military Organisation, the Petersburg Committee and later on the Central Committee, reversed their decision, coming out in support of the street demonstrations

Role range: 1917-1918

July Days

Bolshevik leaders reverse course and support the mass demonstrations.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Trotsky argues that street protests should remain peaceful and disciplined.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

July Days

Trotsky supports Central Committee efforts to restrain the movement.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Arrest after July Days

Is arrested after defending the Bolsheviks.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Election to Bolshevik Central Committee

Is elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee as the party prepares for a new phase of revolutionary struggle.

Joins the Bolshevik Party

Joins the Bolshevik Party with the Mezhrayonka during the party's Sixth Congress.

Release after Kornilov

Is released as Bolsheviks gain prestige after the crisis.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Petrograd Soviet Leadership

Trotsky strengthens Bolshevik influence within the Petrograd Soviet before the October uprising.

Role range: 1917-1936 – 1917-1917

Chairman of Petrograd Soviet

Is elected chairman after the Bolshevik majority grows.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Chairman of Petrograd Soviet

Is elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Chairman of Petrograd Soviet

Replaces moderate leadership as Bolshevik strength grows.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917

Military Revolutionary Committee

The Petrograd Soviet supports creation of the Military Revolutionary Committee under Bolshevik leadership.

Role range: 1917-1936 – 1917-1917

Military Revolutionary Committee

Helps create the committee under Petrograd Soviet authority.

Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1917