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 Zbarsky Lev Zbarsky Felix-Lev Borisovich Zbarsky (; 12 November 1931 – 22 February 2016) was a Russian Soviet painter. He was born in Moscow, the son of a biochemist . Biochemist Ilya Zbarsky was his brother, and he was the first husband of actress Lyudmila Maksakova. Lev Zbarsky the first son of the second marriage of Boris Ilyich Zbarsky with Evgenia Perelman. Lev was born in Moscow in November 1931. Father decided to call his son the name of the man he most respected. Since these people were two: Lev Karpov and Felix Dzerzhinsky, the son was given a double name