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Leon Trotsky is a real-life historical figure who was a prominent revolutionary and political theorist. A key figure in the 1905 Russian Revolution, he fell out of grace with the Soviet Party in the wake of Vladimir Lenin’s death and Josef Stalin’s rise to power. In the late 1920s, he was expelled first from the bureaucracy, then from the Party, and then from the Soviet Union itself. He lived as an international exile from 1929 until his death in 1940 at the hands of a Stalinist agent. In the novel, Augie encounters Trotsky when he happens to visit Acatla—with Hooker Frazer and Sylvester in his entourage—during Augie’s time there.
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Leon Trotsky Character Timeline in The Adventures of Augie March
The timeline below shows where the character Leon Trotsky appears in The Adventures of Augie March. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 17
...quieter event rejuvenates him one day, when he happens to witness the arrival of Leon Trotsky, exiled Soviet revolutionary, in town. Though no socialist himself, Augie is nevertheless impressed to be...
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Much to Augie’s surprise, he spots Sylvester among Trotsky’s bodyguards. It turns out that both Sylvester and Hooker Frazer work for the old man...
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Chapter 20
...visit Augie. The Soviet government is trying to get an agent into Mexico to assassinate Trotsky. Some of his handlers have cooked up a scheme to shake the assassin by disguising...
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