Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky (; born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; – 21 August 1940) was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and Soviet politician whose particular strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism. Initially supporting the Menshevik Internationalists faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he joined the Bolsheviks ("majority") just before the 1917 October Revolution, immediately becoming a leader within the Communist Party. He would go on to become one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution. During the early days of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and
Martin Bronstein He left the comedy troupe to return to journalism in 1974. In 1982 he returned to Britain to become editor of Squash Player International Magazine and has written extensively on the sport in the ensuing decades. Martin Bronstein Martin Bronstein (born 1935) is a British-Canadian actor, writer, columnist, broadcaster and journalist. Bronstein was born in London, England. Bronstein moved to Canada in 1959 and worked as a copywriter, journalist and comedy writer. He also worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviewing a series of musicians, including Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Nina Simone, Duke