Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein) 1879 21 August 1940) Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Leon Trotsky, born Len Bronstein, in Bereslavka, Ukraine in 1879, was, like several other Comrades of Vladimir Lenin, a Jew. After the Revolution Trotsky organized the Red Army. While Jewish, he was an anti-nationalist and an anti-Zionist.
