Leon Trotsky was the name used by Bronstein.
Leon Trotsky was born in a town called Yanivka or Yanovka. It was part of the Russian Empire at that time but is now part of Ukraine.
Yes, Trotsky, originally named Lev Davidovich Bronstein was of Jewish ancestry. In fact, it was one reason the mainly Russian Bolsheviks did not want him to succeed Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.
In 1897, Leon Trotsky was operating under his real name of Lev Davidovich Bronstein. In early 1897, Bronstein and his close associates organized a secret group called the South Russian Workers' Union. The group help political discussions and issued leaflets concerning the terrible working conditions in local factories. Soon the police raided the group's meeting place and sent all of them, Bronstein included to the Odessa prison. Soon after he was sentenced for four years and sent off to a Siberian prison camp.
The name Trotsky, or Trotskii, was the name of one of Leon Trotsky's prison guards when he was imprisoned in Odessa. It became a pen name, among others, in place of his birth name Lev Davidovitch Bronstein.
Vladimir Illytch Ulianov alias Lenin, along with Lev Bronstein, alias Trotsky, were the leaders of the Communists in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin went on to lead Russia until 1924 & Trotsky was murdered in Mexico City in 1936.
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
The name used by Lev Davidovich Bronstein was Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky was born in a town called Yanivka or Yanovka. It was part of the Russian Empire at that time but is now part of Ukraine.
The name was Leon Trotsky, also called Lev Trotsky.Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Belkind died in 1969.
Lev Davidovich Belkind was born in 1896.
Lev Davidovich Landau was born on January 22, 1908.
Under his given name of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, the young "Trotsky formed his first political organization along with his friends in 1897. It was a secret group and they chose its name as South Russian Worker's Union.
Lev Davidovich Landau died on April 1, 1968 at the age of 60.
Lev Davidovich Landau won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963.