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 Timofeev the mid-1990s he joined the Transnational Radical Party and became a member of its General Council. Timofeev isone of the leading theorists of drug decriminalization. In early 2000 Timofeev retired from politics and teaching and embarked on a career of a novelist: since 2004 he published three novels and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel "Negative" was nominated for the Booker Prize. Between 2011 and 2015 Timofeev regularly published his short stories in the Russian Riviera magazine. Lev Timofeev has three children: Sofiya, Yekaterina and Anton. Lev Timofeev Lev Timofeev (, born 1936) is a Russian economist, political