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
Alexander Bronstein Alexander Bronstein Alexander Bronstein (; born June 15, 1954 in Leningrad, USSR) is an entrepreneur and billionaire currently living in Tallinn, Estonia. He is an Estonian citizen. Bronstein is well known in Jewish circles and is vice president of the Eurasian Jewish congress. A keen philanthropist, he sponsored the building of the first synagogue and community centre in Estonia. Son of academic and World War II veteran (Mikhail Bronstein). Alexander Bronstein was born in 1954 in Leningrad. Anti-semitism drove the family to Tallinn, Estonia in 1956. In 1976 Bronstein graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in Applied Mathematics,