Definition of Trotskyite

1. Noun. Radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution.

Exact synonyms: Trot, Trotskyist
Generic synonyms: Radical
Derivative terms: Trotsky, Trotskyism

Definition of Trotskyite

1. Noun. an advocate of the communist doctrines of Leon Trotsky ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trotskyite

Tropaeolum majus
Tropaeolum minus
Tropaeolum peregrinum
Trophonian
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Tropics
Tropidoclonion
Tropidoclonion lineatum
Tropæolum
Trotsky
Trotskyism
Trotskyist
Trotskyists
Trotskyite (current term)
Trotskyites
Trott
Trotter
Trousseau
Trousseau's point
Trousseau's sign
Trousseau's spot
Trousseau's syndrome
Troy
Troyes
Troyish
Troödos
Trp

Literary usage of Trotskyite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe: A Survey of Holdings at the by Joseph D. Dwyer (1980)
"The library has an excellent body of documentation on this Trotskyite movement, ... A large number of pamphlets published by Trotskyite organizations in ..."

2. Lenin's Legacy: The Story of the Cpsu by Robert G. Wesson (1978)
"The opposition also tried to organize military support through a Trotskyite Deputy Commissar of War, but the exposure of this effort brought serious ..."

3. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"... the Maoist ERP, and the Trotskyite PRTC. It was Cuba's Fidel Castro who personally prodded the various leaders into joining their disparate forces under ..."

4. Opposition and Dissent in Contemporary China by Peter R. Moody (1977)
"The biographical information on Ch'en shows how seriously that on Lattimore should be taken: "A KMT anticommunist element, Trotskyite, renegade, agent, ..."

5. Power, Competition, and the State by Keith Middlemas (1986)
"engineering in clear contravention of the regulations, sometimes under the influence of Trotskyite groups (R. Croucher, Engineers at War 1939-45 (1980)). ..."

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"That use of shibboleth looks like this: Of course, not everybody who calls himself or is called a Marxist or a Trotskyite subscribes to all (or any) of the ..."

7. Intervention Or Neglect: The United States and Central America Beyond the 1980s by Linda Robinson (1991)
"... and another schism in 1976 produced the tiny Trotskyite Central American Revolutionary Workers' party.3 Finally, in 1979, the Communist party decided to ..."

8. Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe by Bertram David Wolfe, Robert Hessen (1990)
"The group passed a unanimous resolution denouncing Wolfe as "a known Trotskyite, [who] had made slanderous statements against the heroic Soviet peoples. ..."

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