Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Trotsky’s expulsion from the USSR (1929)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Trotsky deported”
Feb 1929 — Expelled from the Soviet Union, Trotsky lands at Constantinople and settles on the island of Prinkipo (Büyükada). He denounced Stalin from abroad for eleven years, until an NKVD agent killed him in Mexico in August 1940.
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- Stalin’s rise to power (chapter 1 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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