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 Karpov Lev Karpov Lev Iakovlevich Karpov (April 18 (30), 1879, Kiev; January 6, 1921, Moscow) was a Russian Chemist and Bolshevik revolutionary. Karpov, the son of a sales clerk, became a member of the Communist Party in 1897. He studied chemistry at the Moscow Higher Technical School graduating in 1910. After moving to Voronezh he became involved with the Northern Russian Workers’ Union. In 1915 he was appointed director of Bondjuschski Sawod in Mendeleyevsk (Tatarstan), the oldest chemical factory in Russia, established in 1868, which was later renamed the Chemical Plant Karpov after him. After the october revolution he founded the