Leon Trotsky politically marginalised by Stalinism, Trotsky continued to argue for a united front against fascism in Germany and Spain. According to Joseph Choonara of the British Socialist Workers Party in "International Socialism", his articles on the united front represent an important part of his political legacy. 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
Lev Karpov Lev Karpov Lev Iakovlevich Karpov (April 18 (30), 1879, Kiev; January 6, 1921, Moscow) was a Russian Chemist and Bolshevik revolutionary. Karpov, the son of a sales clerk, became a member of the Communist Party in 1897. He studied chemistry at the Moscow Higher Technical School graduating in 1910. After moving to Voronezh he became involved with the Northern Russian Workers’ Union. In 1915 he was appointed director of Bondjuschski Sawod in Mendeleyevsk (Tatarstan), the oldest chemical factory in Russia, established in 1868, which was later renamed the Chemical Plant Karpov after him. After the october revolution he founded the