Leon Trotsky (Early World War I)

Lev Davidovich Bronstein was born on November 7th [ 26 October] into a farming family who lived in Yanovka in Kherson province in the Russian empire's region of New Russia, which is OTL's modern day southern Ukraine. Trotsky lived as Leiba Bronstein until the age of 23 when he adopted the pseudonym Leon Trotsky. His family is of Jewish origin and his parents where quite wealthy (something he was embarrassed about being a Marxist).