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Leon Trotsky after being expelled from the Communist Party, December 1927. Trotsky (1879-1940) was one of the leading figures of the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet government afterwards. He lost out to Joseph Stalin in the power struggle that took place at the top of the Communist Party after the death of Lenin and was expelled from the Party on 12 November 1927. In January 1928 he was exiled to Alma Ata, today in Kazakhstan and the following year was banished from the Soviet Union altogether.