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
Martin Bronstein He left the comedy troupe to return to journalism in 1974. In 1982 he returned to Britain to become editor of Squash Player International Magazine and has written extensively on the sport in the ensuing decades. 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