Leon Trotsky in a Mexican prison for the murder. Stalin presented Mercader with an Order of Lenin in absentia. Trotsky's ideas formed the basis of Trotskyism, a major school of Marxist thought that opposes the theories of Stalinism. He was written out of the history books under Stalin, and was one of the few Soviet political figures who was not rehabilitated by the government under Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s. Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879, the fifth child of a Ukrainian-Jewish family of wealthy farmers in Yanovka or Yanivka, in the Kherson governorate of the Russian
Lev Philippovitch Wolkenstein Alexis Wolkenstein, his son, Pierre Wolkenstein and Marie-Sophie Wolkenstein, his grand children and Paul, Louis, Héloïse and Simon Wolkenstein, his great grand children living in Paris. Lev Philippovitch Wolkenstein Lev Philippovitch Wolkenstein (, 1858—20.05.1935, Paris) was a Russian jurist, lawyer and cadet. He was born as Isaak-Leib Fishelevich Wolkenstein () at 1858 presumably in Taganrog. Lev Wolkenstein was brother of who also was a Russian lawyer. Lev Wolkenstein studied at Taganrog Classical Male Gymnasium () at the same time as Anton Chekhov. When Chekhov was at seventh grade and Wolkenstein was at undergraduate eighth grade, all students at Wolkenstein's class