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 Nussberg Lev Nussberg Lev Valdemarovich Nussberg (; born 1937) (also known as "Nusberg") is a Russian painter, and founder of Russian kinetic art. Born in 1937 in Tashkent, Lev's father Waldemar reportedly was of German familial origin rumored of Nußberg gardeners, but the Von Nusbergs appear to at some point in history lost the aristocratic prefix "von". Waldemar, an architect, in 1938 was accused of "spying for a foreign power" and, following a quick Soviet era conviction, disappeared while incarcerated as a prisoner of a gulag in Urals. Lev's mother, born Raisa Bespalova, was a Russian singer. In the late 1940s,