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 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 Ellington. With John Morgan, he wrote a comedy series, "Funny You Should Say That", for CBC. Bronstein was a founding member in 1970 of the Jest Society, which became the Royal Canadian Air Farce in 1973.