An assassin called Ramon Mercader, acting on Stalin's orders, stabbed Trotsky with an ice axe, fatally wounding him. as a result he died the following day.
He died the 21st of August 1940 in Mexico at 60 years of age.
Trotsky died because a Russian agent, Ramon Mercader, murdered him by smashing the pointed end of an ice axe into Trotsky's skull.
In 1897, he was a driving force in founding the South Russia Workers Union and in 1898 the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP). Trotsky shifted from the Menshevik faction of the RSDLP to...