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
Lev Zinder family (without Lev Rafailovich) moved from town to town: Kirov, Sevetek, Vladimir. In 1944 they returned to Leningrad and Lev Zinder got the medal for Victory over Germany. Later, since 1945 till 1995 Lev Zinder taught at Leningrad State University and on 23 August he died. He was buried at Serafim’s cemetery. Lev Rafailovich Zinder famous scientific proceedings: Lev Zinder Lev Rafailovich Zinder (8 January 1904 - 23 August 1995) was Russian linguist in German philology. Lev Zinder was born in 1904 in Kiev. When he was eight, he entered the third gymnasium in Kiev, but finished only six forms