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  Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) was born in Yanovka, Ukraine, as the son of an illiterate Jewish farmer.
Trotsky's younger sister Olga married an influential Bolshevik leader, Lev Kamenev, but she was shot in 1941.
On the death of his elder son Lev Sedov in 1934, Trotsky wrote: "Yagoda [head of the security organs] caused the premature death of one of my daughters, and drove the other to suicide.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /trotsky.htm   (2019 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Trotsky
An outstanding administrator and an eloquent theorist, Trotsky held a number of important posts in the government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) until he was ousted for his opposition to Communist Party leader Joseph Stalin in 1925.
Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in the town of Yanovka in Ukraine, which was then under the rule of the Russian Empire.
After attending a Jewish primary school, Trotsky became a student at a state school in the city of Odesa (Odessa) in 1888 and later went to a high school in neighboring Mikolayiv, graduating in 1897.
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 Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) was born on October 26, 1879, son of a hard-working, thrifty, and well-to-do jewish farmer, in the southern part of Ukraine.
Lev was an exeptionally bright and capable student, and in 1896 he moved to Nicolayev to complete his secondary education and to study matematics.
However, Lev was arrested for his political activities, put in prison, and in 1900 deported to Siberia.
www.fbuch.com /leon.htm   (780 words)

  
 The Assasination of Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, revolutionary Marxist and, alongside Lenin, one of the most outstanding leaders of the 1905 revolution and the October revolution in Russia, fell victim to an assassination expressly ordered by Joseph Stalin.
"Jackson!" Lev Davidovich said, as he clung to the door-frame of his office, covered in blood, pointing out the aggressor to Natalia who had come running.
The plot proceeded in stages: Stalin, Beria, Leonid Eitingon, his lover Caridad Mercader anf her son, the Catalan, Ramón Mercader (alias Jackson) were the people who murdered the founder of the Red Army and the comrade-in-arms of Lenin.
www.newyouth.com /archives/historicalanalysis/assasination_of_leon_trotsky.html   (2051 words)

  
 ChessVault » 2006 » April
Korchnoi regards Paul Keres and David Bronstein as tragic figures in chess.
Korchnoi says Bronstein made a number of mistakes, and was punished by the authorities.
One of the mistakes was naming his son Lev Davidovich - this ties up with supporting Lev Trotsky, a political adversary of Stalin (Trotsky was born as Lev Davidovich Bronstein!).
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 Anecdote - Leon [born Lev Davidovich] Trotsky [born Bronstein] - Central Misperception   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anecdote - Leon [born Lev Davidovich] Trotsky [born Bronstein] - Central Misperception
Leon Trotsky, who spent much of his time during World War I playing chess in Vienna's Cafe Central, was regarded by his acquiantances as simple, harmless, even slightly pathetic.
Trotsky [born Bronstein], Leon [born Lev Davidovich] (1879-1940) Russian revolutionary [noted for his organization (with Lenin) of the November Revolution, his creation (as commissar for war) of Russia's Red Army, his fall from favor after Lenin's death (1924), and his exile to Mexico City (where he was assassinated in 1940)]
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 Biography of Leon Trotsky
riginally named Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Trotsky was born on November 7, 1879, in Kherson Province in Ukraine, the son of Russified Jews.
He was educated in Odesa and in Mykolayiv and was a star pupil with enormous intellectual capabilities.
Never particularly adept at party politics, he failed to outmaneuver the troika of Grigory Zinovyev, Lev Kamenev, and Stalin that took power.
www.jewwatch.com /jew-leaders-trotsky.htm   (747 words)

  
 Bronstein Family
My aunt Sorke (Sarah) nee Bronstein was married to Mendel Zavodnick and lived in Brooklyn, NY.
Originally named Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Trotsky was born on November 7, 1879, in Kherson Province in Ukraine, the son of Russified Jews.
He was educated in Odesa and in Mykolayiv and was a star pupil with enormous intellectual capabilities.
www.eilatgordinlevitan.com /kurenets/k_pages/bronstein.html   (897 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Landau Lev Davidovich
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Landau Lev Davidovich
Landau, Lev Davidovich (1908-68), Soviet theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, noted chiefly for his pioneer work in low-temperature physics...
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 Neo-Conservative Connection to Trotsky(Lev Davidovich Bronstein) - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Neo-Conservative Connection to Trotsky(Lev Davidovich Bronstein) - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
Schwartz spent his formative years in a Spanish Trotskyist group.
To this day, Schwartz speaks of Trotsky affectionately as "the old man" and "L.D." (initials from Trotsky's birth name, Lev Davidovich Bronstein).
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=73409   (467 words)

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