Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun leon_trotsky

1 sense of leon trotsky

Sense 1
Trotsky, Leon Trotsky, Lev Davidovich Bronstein -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> Bolshevik, Bolshevist -- (a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party)
       INSTANCE OF=> revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter -- (a radical supporter of political or social revolution)