What revolutionary was expelled from Russia in 1929?

The revolutionary expelled from Russia in 1929 was Leon Trotsky.

Trotsky was a central figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917, helping organize the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and serving as one of the most prominent Bolshevik leaders. After Vladimir Lenin’s death, Trotsky became the leading rival of Joseph Stalin within the Communist Party.

Stalin’s faction gradually defeated Trotsky’s Left Opposition. Trotsky was removed from the Politburo in 1926, expelled from the Communist Party in 1927, and sent into internal exile at Alma-Ata in 1928. In February 1929, Soviet authorities deported him from the Soviet Union to Turkey.

The wording “expelled from Russia” can be slightly imprecise: by 1929, the country was officially the Soviet Union, and Trotsky had already experienced internal exile before being deported abroad. He later lived in France, Norway, and Mexico, where he was assassinated in 1940 by Ramón Mercader, a Soviet agent.