What did Trotsky do to win the Civil War?

Trotsky built up the Red Army by conscripting thousands of peasants. This was a major factor in the Bolshevik victory as the Red Army became a huge fighting force which was able to defeat the Whites. Their experience gave the Red army the military expertise to win the Civil War.

Why was Trotsky named Snowball?

Snowball represents Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was a political theorist, revolutionary and a leader of the Red Army. After the Revolution he was involved in Russian foreign affairs and policy making.

How does Leon Trotsky relate to Animal Farm?

Trotsky was also the leader of Lenin’s Red Army, as Snowball directs the army of animals that repel Jones. Eventually, Trotsky was exiled from the U.S.S.R. and killed by the agents of Joseph Stalin (1979-1953), as Snowball is chased off of the farm by Napoleon — Orwell’s stand-in for Stalin.

What is Trotskyism and why is it bad?

Thanks to Stalin, “Trotskyism” soon became a term of opprobrium for elitism, factionalism, and a lack of connectedness to the masses of workers and peasants. During the mid-1920s, Trotsky responded to these developments by calling for a restoration of workers’ democracy within the Communist Party.

Who was Leon Trotsky’s enemy?

Although history rightly remembers Joseph Stalin as Trotsky’s chief rival and later mortal enemy, in the early 1920s Stalin passed unnoticed by many observers. He had been a “barely perceptible shadow,” as Trotsky put it.

What was Stalin’s advantage in the struggle for power?

In a centralized one-party state, a man of Stalin’s ambitions who held so many key positions had an enormous advantage in the struggle for power.

What happened to Joseph Stalin’s son Ivan the Terrible?

Settling with his family in a suburb of Mexico City, he was found guilty of treason in absentia during Stalin’s purges of his political foes. He survived a machine-gun attack on his home but on August 20, 1940, fell prey to a Spanish Communist, Ramon Mercader, who fatally wounded him with an ice-ax. He died from his wounds the next day.