Soviet Jews

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 145. Chapters: Leon Trotsky, Dziga Vertov, Wolf Messing, Osip Mandelstam, Marc Chagall, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Karl Radek, Yelena Shushunova, Alexander Beliavsky, Maxim Litvinov, Isaak Babel, El Lissitzky, Alexandru Robot, Lazar Kaganovich, Vasily Grossman, Natan Sharansky, Ilya Ehrenburg, Salo Flohr, Nikolai Vavilov, Alexander Tairov, Yakov Blumkin, Adolph Joffe, Alexander Krasnoshchyokov, Abraham Zelmanov, Pyotr Stolyarsky, Andor Lilienthal, Teodor Oizerman, Jacob Golos, Yevgenia Ginzburg, Abraham Solomonick, Yakov Kreizer, Konstantin Umansky, Samuil Marshak, Yevgeny Khaldei, Grigory Stelmakh, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Alexander Kazhdan, Refusenik, Arie Eliav, Boris Yefimov, Ida Nudel, Moisei Ginzburg, Semyon Snitkovsky, Abram Slutsky, Nachman Dushanski, Naum Meiman, David Tyshler, Igor Kon, Grigory Sokolnikov, Inna Meiman-Kitrossky, Rachel Messerer, Genrikh Lyushkov, Maxim D. Shrayer, Valery Oisteanu, Zahava Gal-On, Irakly Andronikov, Cecilia Bobrovskaya, Tzvi Tzur, Osip Abdulov, Alexander Gomelsky, Alexander Krein, Theodore Rothstein, Yisrael Bar-Yehuda, Joseph Chaikov, Anatoly Rybakov, Faina Melnyk, Yunna Morits, Fridrikh Ermler, Vladimir Konovalov, Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov, Eduard Gurwits, Evgeny Lifshitz, Aaron Soltz, Irina Press, Genrikh Sapgir, Mikhail Trilisser, Mikhail Lifshitz, Herbert Rappaport, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Ios Teper, Mikhail Schweitzer, Israel Fisanovich, Tatyana Lioznova, Boris Slutsky, Leonid Tsypkin, Samuil Feinberg, Stas Misezhnikov, Galina Dzhugashvili, Eduard Kuznetsov, Boris Iofan, Israel Gohberg, Leonid Geishtor, Michael Plisetski, Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, Efraim Gur, Lev Skvirsky, Valentin Mankin, David Bar-Rav-Hai, Zinovy Gerdt, Yona Kesse, Nino Abesadze, Boris Zakhoder, Oleg Kagan, Boris Rybkin, Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich, Polina Gelman, Lev Kassil, Natan Eidelman, Eliezer Kulas, Mikhail Kaufman, Elina Bystritskaya, Ze'ev Elkin, Vladimir Boltyansky, Semyon Lavochkin, Igor Kirillov, Caesar Lvovich Kunikov, Vera Inber, Lev Dovator, Lev Mekhlis, Rolan Bykov, Faina Kirschenbaum, Mikhail Girshovich, Semyon Kosberg, Lia Shemtov, Yerahmiel Assa, Israel Leplevsky, Robert Ilatov, Robert Tiviaev, Karl Pauker, Jakub Egit, Lazar Lagin, Arkady Ostrovsky, Mikhail Lashevich, Orit Zuaretz, Pavel Kogan, Naum Shtarkman, Semyon Alexandrovich Ginzburg, Arons Bogolubovs, Marcel Rosenberg, Matvei Vainrub, Vladimir Kolpakchi, Iosif Grinberg. Excerpt: Leon Trotsky (Russian pronunciation: ; 7 November 1879 - 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian 1917 October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the 1917-1922 Russian Civil War and Kronstadt rebellion. He was also among the first members of the Politburo. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power, expelled from the Communist Party, deported from the Soviet Union and assassinated on Stalin's orders. An early advocate of Red Army intervention against European fascism, Trotsky also opposed Stalin's non...