Trotsky was the idealist in the Russian Revolution, Lenin the leader, Stalin the muscle. In the end he was not wise enough politically to succeed and was assassinated by Stalin. Trotsky had power in his ideas (which spoke to other idealists), but not in military might nor in political strategy and that is why he ended up exiled to Mexico where he got a pick axe through the skull as a parting gift from the USSR.

He had an affair with Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and was apparently the heart throb of "The Revolution" (bunch of prize picks those bastards were, horrid facial hair, ugly glasses, ill fitting suits, not bathing regularly).

He was one of those Communists that was always on about how "Well we haven't tried it the right way yet"....well the Soviets tried Lenin, then Stalin, they completely skipped Trotsky's "right way" and so he remains like another guy who never led a country Ernesto Che Guevara....loved by the idealists and scoffed at by pragmatics like me.