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 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