EVENT INFORMATION

21
Augustus
1940

Leon Trotsky dies after an assassination attack

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📅 21 Augustus 1940 📍 Mexico

Ramón 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 to a record of military centralization and coercive state practice.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Leon Trotsky

Natalia Sedova

Ramón Mercader

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Soviet security services

Mexican authorities