Trotsky — Stalin Character Profile

About Trotsky

Intellectual Bolshevik leader and former ally. Complains about Stalin's executions, engages in a power struggle for Lenin's legacy, and is ultimately exiled from the country by Stalin.

Character Facts

Played by

Daniel Massey

Appears in

Stalin (1992)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• Trotsky — Conflict Rival — Vladimir Lenin (Maximilian Schell)

  Trotsky challenges Lenin's defense of Stalin's ruthless tactics.

• Trotsky — Conflict Political Enemy — Sergei (Frank Finlay)

  Both serve as political rivals to the central leadership.

• Trotsky — Conflict Purge Target — Beria (Roshan Seth)

  Beria's apparatus facilitates Trotsky's removal.

• Trotsky — Conflict Ideological Opponent — Bukharin (Jeroen Krabbé)

  They share ideological resistance to Stalin.

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• Olga (Joan Plowright)
• Beria (Roshan Seth)
• Krupskaya (Miriam Margolyes)
• Sergei (Frank Finlay)
• Zinoviev (András Bálint)
• Kirov (Kevin McNally)
• Molotov (Clive Merrison)