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 Central Chemical Laboratory (now Karpow-Institute for Physical Chemistry) in Moscow in 1918 and was appointed several high-ranking positions in the soviet administration. He is buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Leonid Krasin spoke at his funeral suggesting that science would be able to restore the dead back to life: 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