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 Knyazev Lev Knyazev Lev Knyazev () is a Russian writer best known for his novels describing lives of seamen of Vladivostok, the biggest Russian seaport on the Pacific coast. His most famous novel “Morskoi Protest’ (Sea Protest) was sold 2 million copies in just one year. Though his creative heritage is primarily in prose, he is considered one of the brightest artists of the Perestroika times, the signer of beautiful people who kept their souls pure in the most challenging times. Lev (in Russian it also means a “lion”) was born in the family of two teachers from central Russia, one