{"slug": "leon-trotsky", "label": "Leon Trotsky", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33391", "qid": "Q33391", "description": "Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)", "entries": 12, "years": 8, "span": [1879, 1940], "span_label": ["1879 CE", "1940 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Trotsky"], "related": [{"slug": "joseph-stalin", "label": "Joseph Stalin", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "saint-petersburg", "label": "Saint Petersburg", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vladimir-lenin", "label": "Vladimir Lenin", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "grand-duchy-of-finland", "label": "Grand Duchy of Finland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vienna", "label": "Vienna", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "adolf-hitler", "label": "Adolf Hitler", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "josip-broz-tito", "label": "Josip Broz Tito", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "communism", "label": "Communism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1879, "year_label": "1879 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365404244#October–December", "title": "1879", "revid": 1365404244, "section": "Births › October–December"}}, {"year": 1913, "year_label": "1913 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "January", "text": "January – Joseph Stalin travels to Vienna to research his Marxism and the National Question. This means that, during this month, Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito are all living in the city, as also are Freud and Jung.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373505613#January", "title": "1913", "revid": 1373505613, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1917, "year_label": "1917 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 17", "text": "April 17 – Leon Trotsky, en route from New York to Russia, is detained in Halifax. He will spend the next month in Amherst Internment Camp before being released.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352788070#January_to_June", "title": "1917 in Canada", "revid": 1352788070, "section": "Events › January to June"}}, {"year": 1917, "year_label": "1917 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 16", "text": "July 16–18 – July Days: Serious clashes occur in Petrograd; Vladimir Lenin escapes to Finland; Leon Trotsky is arrested.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519608#July", "title": "1917", "revid": 1373519608, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1917, "year_label": "1917 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 16", "text": "July 16–July 18 – Clashes in Petrograd in July Days; Lenin escapes to Finland; Trotsky is arrested.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333144584#Events", "title": "1917 in Russia", "revid": 1333144584, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1926, "year_label": "1926 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503199#October", "title": "1926", "revid": 1373503199, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1927, "year_label": "1927 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 12", "text": "November 12 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370012373#November", "title": "1927", "revid": 1370012373, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#January", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#January", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#August", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 21", "text": "August 21 – Leon Trotsky, Russian communist revolutionary (assassinated) (b. 1879)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#August", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Deaths › August"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 21", "text": "August 21 — Leon Trotsky, politician and political theorist (b. 1879)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1335090131#Deaths", "title": "1940 in the Soviet Union", "revid": 1335090131, "section": "Deaths"}}]}