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Leon Trotsky  

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  • Leon Trotsky, a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist, was born in the Ukrainian village of Yanovka to a family that was ethnically Jewish but not religiously observant. His birth name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein; Trotsky was one of numerous aliases he used as a member of Russia's revolutionary underground. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Trotsky, Leon (1879–1940)]

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