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
Jake Bronstein Jake Bronstein Jake Bronstein (born June 13, 1978), is an entrepreneur, Internet personality, and blogger. He was an editor of the US edition of "FHM", a men's magazine. Bronstein markets himself as a "fun evangelist," and provides consulting services to that end through his marketing agency GiantMINIATURE. Bronstein appeared in season four of the television program "Road Rules", "", at age 18, and two years later published his first feature article in "Maxim". At 21 he signed on for "FHM", but took a brief break a few years later to co-host G4 Tech TV's "Video Game Vixens". His tenure at