Marjane’s friend plays Trotsky during their revolution

game (page 10).

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky was a
Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theorist. He was the leader of the
Red army. The Red Army was the army of the Bolsheviks in the
Russian Civil War. Bolsheviks were a group of Russian communists
who later formed a political party. He was a firm believer of
communism and wanted to establish a socialist society. After having left
Russia after the 1905 revolution due to safety reasons, In 1917, he
returned to Russia because of the Russian Revolution. He helped to
bring about communism in Russia and defend it during the Russian
Civil War. He was in charge of the army at this time. When the leader
of the Bolsheviks (the party who led the revolution) Vladimir Lenin
died, Trotsky became involved in a power struggle with Joseph Stalin
for the leadership of the party. He lost, and Stalin came to power. He
had to leave Russia because of Stalin, who was now his own enemy and
wanted to harm Trotsky. In 1938 Trotsky founded the Fourth
International. Stalin had one of his spies, Spaniard Ramón Mercarder,
stab Trotsky to death in Mexico in 1940.