Editing Leon Trotsky (section)

=== Defeat and exile (1927–1928) ===
[[File:Leon Trotsky 1928.jpg|thumb|left|Trotsky with his wife Natalia Sedova and son Lev Sedov in Alma Ata (now Almaty), 1928]]
On the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution in November 1927, the Opposition held a street demonstration in Moscow against Stalin's government. It was dispersed by Soviet authorities, and Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party shortly thereafter.<ref>J. Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov. Road to Terror. pp. 26-27</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://topos.memo.ru/en/node/135|title=Anti-Stalinist Demonstration on November 7, 1927|date=2 December 2015|website=Topography of Terror, Moscow|access-date=10 January 2024|archive-date=10 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110131422/https://topos.memo.ru/en/node/135|url-status=dead}}</ref> Trotsky delivered the eulogy at his friend Adolph Joffe's funeral in November 1927; it was his last public speech in the Soviet Union. When the XVth Party Congress made United Opposition views incompatible with Communist Party membership, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their supporters capitulated and renounced their alliance with the Left Opposition. Trotsky and most of his followers refused to surrender. Trotsky was exiled to [[Almaty|Alma Ata]] (now Almaty), Kazakhstan, on 31 January 1928. He was expelled from the Soviet Union to Turkey in February 1929, accompanied by his wife Natalia Sedova and their eldest son, Lev.{{sfn|Rubenstein|2013|pp=155, 202}}