Labels:text | screenshot | poster | graphic design OCR: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION STALIN'S REIGN Thl OVERVIEW TROTSKY IN EXILE SOVIET UNION INDUSTRIAL REFORMS KEY PLAYERS STALIN'S PURGE TRIALS STALIN'S REIGN Exiled Bolshevik Leon Trotsky (center) arrives in Mexico TROTSKY IN EXILE SOVIET After Lenin's death, Trotsky was defeated by Stalin in INTERESTS a bitter struggle for the succession. Critical of Stalin's autocratic rule, he was expelled from the party in 1927 and exiled to Central Asia. He finally found asylum in Mexico, but was assassinated on Stalin's orders in 1940 CHRONOLOGY NEWSFLASH ..