Trotsky expelled from Communist Party
1927
After losing the Soviet power struggle, Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party he had helped found. Exiled first to Kazakhstan, then abroad, he would wander Europe warning against Stalin for thirteen years before an agent with an ice axe caught up to him in Mexico City in 1940.
In context
Also in 1927 (4 other events on record)
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Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Politics
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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