TROTSKY

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• TROTSKY (noun)
  The noun TROTSKY has 1 sense:

1. Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)

  Familiarity information: TROTSKY used as a noun is very rare.

• TROTSKY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Leon Trotsky; Lev Davidovich Bronstein; Trotsky

Instance hypernyms:

Bolshevik; Bolshevist (a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party)

revolutionary; revolutionist; subversive; subverter (a radical supporter of political or social revolution)

Derivation:

Trotskyist (radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution)