Leon Trotsky in a Mexican prison for the murder. Stalin presented Mercader with an Order of Lenin in absentia. Trotsky's ideas formed the basis of Trotskyism, a major school of Marxist thought that opposes the theories of Stalinism. He was written out of the history books under Stalin, and was one of the few Soviet political figures who was not rehabilitated by the government under Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s. Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879, the fifth child of a Ukrainian-Jewish family of wealthy farmers in Yanovka or Yanivka, in the Kherson governorate of the Russian
Lev Zinder family (without Lev Rafailovich) moved from town to town: Kirov, Sevetek, Vladimir. In 1944 they returned to Leningrad and Lev Zinder got the medal for Victory over Germany. Later, since 1945 till 1995 Lev Zinder taught at Leningrad State University and on 23 August he died. He was buried at Serafim’s cemetery. Lev Rafailovich Zinder famous scientific proceedings: Lev Zinder Lev Rafailovich Zinder (8 January 1904 - 23 August 1995) was Russian linguist in German philology. Lev Zinder was born in 1904 in Kiev. When he was eight, he entered the third gymnasium in Kiev, but finished only six forms