Editing Leon Trotsky (section)

== In popular culture ==
*   The comedy film ''[[The Trotsky]]'' (2009) centres on a protagonist named Leon Bronstein (played by [[Jay Baruchel]]) who believes himself the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tiff.net/events/the-trotsky |title=The Trotsky |publisher=[[Toronto International Film Festival]] |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
*   The characters [[Snowball (Animal Farm)|Snowball]] in [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Animal Farm]]'' (1945) and [[Emmanuel Goldstein]] in ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' (1949) are based on Trotsky.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Corney |first1=Frederick |title=Trotsky's Challenge: The 'Literary Discussion' of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution |date=24 November 2015 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-30666-0 |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3pADCwAAQBAJ&dq=Trotsky+snowball+Goldstein&pg=PA82 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Shaffer |first1=Brian W. |title=A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 – 2000 |date=15 April 2008 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-5616-5 |page=247 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1BAc_RuD34MC&dq=Trotsky+snowball+Goldstein&pg=PA247 |language=en}}</ref>
*   Trotsky's final days were dramatized in the film ''[[The Assassination of Trotsky]]'' (1972), directed by [[Joseph Losey]] and starring [[Richard Burton]] as Trotsky.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gardner |first1=Colin |title=Joseph Losey |date=11 January 2019 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-1-5261-4156-9 |page=265 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXICEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA265 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Flanagan |first1=Kevin M. |title=War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and Beyond |date=25 October 2019 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-030-30203-0 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDy5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 |language=en}}</ref>
*   The 8-episode biographical drama ''[[Trotsky (TV series)|Trotsky]]'' debuted on Russia's [[Channel One Russia|Channel One]] in 2017. [[Netflix]] acquired distribution rights in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trotsky coming soon to Netflix: Russian revolutionary series to go on online streaming |url=https://tass.com/society/1036412 |access-date=29 April 2023 |website=TASS}}</ref>
*   The 1980s UK band [[The Redskins (band)|The Redskins]]' debut single was titled "Lev Bronstein", released on the CNT [[record label]] in 1982.<ref name="socialistworker1">{{cite web|url=http://socialistworker.org/2010/05/27/struggling-for-soul-cialism |title=Struggling for soul-cialism |website=SocialistWorker.org |date=27 May 2010 |access-date=1 June 2020}}</ref>
*   Playwright [[David Ives]] wrote a short play, ''[[Variations on the Death of Trotsky]]'', published in his 1994 collection ''[[All in the Timing]]''.
*   Punk band [[The Stranglers]] refer to Trotsky in their 1977 single "[[No More Heroes (The Stranglers song)|No More Heroes]]" with the lyric "Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky? / He got an ice pick / That made his ears burn".<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Stranglers – No More Heroes|url=https://genius.com/The-stranglers-no-more-heroes-lyrics|access-date=2023-05-04|website=Genius}}</ref>