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 Anninsky Lev Anninsky Lev Alexandrovich Anninsky (, born 7 April 1934, Rostov-on-Don, USSR) is the Soviet, Russian literary critic and historian, publicist, essayist, author of more than 30 books. He is also a scriptwriter, and as such the three times TEFI laureate (1996 and 2004, twice). Lev Anninsky was born in 1934, to Alexander Anninsky, a cossack from stanitsa Novo-Anninskaya, and Anna Alexandrova, born in Lyubech, Ukraine. In his early years Lev Anninsky read a lot, mostly Russian classics and history books, but also philosophers like Hegel and Kant. In 1939 a five-year-old appeared on the screen, cast as a kindergarten