Propaganda Poster The Work of Leon Trotsky

Rare original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Leon Davidovych Trotsky, People's Comissar on Army and Navy Affairs, Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Republic. Most of the posters with images of Trotsky were destroyed after he was declared an enemy of the USSR in the 1930s. Leon Trotsky, byname of Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, (born November 7 [October 26, Old Style], 1879, Yanovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died August 21, 1940, Coyoacán, Mexico), communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia’s October Revolution in 1917, and later commissar of foreign affairs and of war in the Soviet Union (1917–24). In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, however, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent. Fair condition, creasing, folds, tears, staining, pinholes. County: Russia, year of printing:1919, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 55x43