Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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You know, sometimes families are blessed with a an extraordinary sort of opportunity, and Lev Bronstein is
Is gifted.
He's intellectually capable, far more so than any of the other families.
He goes off to primary school, to high school, and eventually goes to university as well.
So this is a guy in the family with the brains.
At university, Odessa University, he studies maths and science.
But he soon gets drawn into revolutionary activities.
These are far more exciting than, you know, doing arithmetic.
And and this is where we see at a very early age, still a student, uh, Trotsky becomes the revolutionary.
Yeah, I think uh you know, his father was quite a brutal individual, as many, you know, you might expect the patriarch of a farming family to be.
He was also extraordinarily miserly, apparently.
Uh so you know the family were wealthy, but young Trotsky writes about um his father coming to meet him at the station when he was coming back from his studies, and his father would give the most minuscule tip to the porter carrying all the bags and everything, and even the young
Trotsky at the time was uh really uh embarrassed and ashamed of his father, thinking, Come on, you could give give this poor peasant a little bit more money.
I think they were a bit a little bit sort of bemused by him.
This is rough peasant country in the Ukraine, and suddenly this guy comes along who's rather elegant, rather effete, extremely intelligent, enormously fastidious about how he looks, and there are some fabulous photos of the Yom Trotsky with his hair.
Wonderful hair.
We'd say now it's called Ombros, you know, he wears this this hair swept upwards, and you know, always looking very neat and tidy in his clothes.
clothes and everything.
So I think people couldn't quite make him out.
What the hell have the Bronstein family produced?
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