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 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,