Leon Trotsky—a figure without whom it is impossible to understand the Bolshevik victory in the Civil War. How did a provincial Jewish youth, Leiba Bronstein, grow into a "demon of the revolution" and de facto hidden dictator, the founder of the Red Army? Maxim Kuzakhmetov examines Trotsky's biography against the myths of Soviet propaganda and conspiracy theories.
00:00 — Leiba Bronstein's Childhood: Family, Environment, Myths of National Trauma
04:00 — Odessa and Education: Secularism, Languages, Character
07:50 — First Arrest and Exile: Prison, Irkutsk, Meeting Future Chekists
12:00 — First Wife Sokolovskaya: Mentor, Children, Fate in Stalin's USSR
14:30 — Journalism, Self-Education, and Escape The Birth of the Name "Leon Trotsky"
20:00 — London and Lenin: "Iskra," Conflicts in the Marxist Elite
23:30 — Paris and Sedova: A New Family and "Revolutionary Life"
25:50 — Zionism through Trotsky's Eyes: Herzl's Harsh Critique
30:00 — The Theory of Permanent Revolution and the Break with Orthodox Marxism
33:00 — The 1905 Revolution: The St. Petersburg Soviet and the Rise of Popularity
37:00 — The Legendary Arrest Scene: Trotsky Turns a Clash with the Authorities into a Spectacle
40:20 — Trial, New Exile, Escape, and Emigration
44:00 — Trotsky's "Pravda" and the August Bloc: An Attempt to Unite the Opposition
49:45 — World War I: The Crisis of Social Democracy and the End of "Peaceful" Emigration

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