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.
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