đź“… 1 November 1916
French police expelled Trotsky for his antiwar activity. Spanish authorities then moved him onward; the episode shows how wartime states policed transnational radicals even when they were foreign...
đź“… 27 March 1917
Aboard a ship from New York, Trotsky was removed by British authorities and held in a Canadian internment camp with German prisoners. Russian émigrés protested, and the Russian Provisional...
đź“… 16 January 1928
The government sent Trotsky into internal exile far from Moscow. The location made visible the Soviet center’s use of Central Asian territory as a space of political removal, within a region...
đź“… 11 February 1929
Trotsky and his family were forced out of the USSR and arrived in Turkey, beginning years of precarious exile. His deportation silenced him inside the Soviet Union while allowing a transnational...
đź“… 1 January 1930
His autobiography recounts revolutionary activity and exile but is also a political intervention written amid the struggle over Soviet history. It is valuable testimony, not a neutral record; it...
đź“… 9 January 1937
President Lázaro Cárdenas granted Trotsky asylum after European governments restricted his residence. Mexican labor, socialist, and anti-imperialist currents shaped the context of his final years;...
đź“… 24 May 1940
An armed group led by David Alfaro Siqueiros attacked the house where Trotsky lived with Natalia Sedova. The failed assault was part of the political violence surrounding his exile; Mexican...
đź“… 21 August 1940
RamĂłn Mercader, acting for Soviet intelligence, struck Trotsky with an ice axe the previous day; Trotsky died on 21 August. His life joined revolutionary internationalism and anticolonial analysis...
đź“… 16 January 1928
The state deported Trotsky internally after expelling him from the Communist Party. The journey to Central Asia was part of a wider campaign against oppositionists and occurred in a region itself...
đź“… 12 February 1929
Trotsky arrived in Turkey after Soviet authorities removed him from Alma-Ata. This began a long exile shaped by visa restrictions, surveillance, and international political conflict.
đź“… 1 June 1940
After the May raid, Trotsky publicly argued that Soviet state agents were organizing his assassination. The essay was both a warning and a political intervention written under immediate threat....
