Trotsky biography wikipedia
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Assassination of Leon Trotsky
murder in Mexico City, Mexico
Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist Leon Trotsky was assassinated in August during his exile Mexico City by Stalinist agent Ramón Mercader.
Assassination
[edit]After a failed attempt to have Trotsky murdered in March , Stalin assigned the overall organization of implementing the task to the NKVD officer Pavel Sudoplatov, who, in turn, co-opted Nahum Eitingon. According to Sudoplatov's Special Tasks, the NKVD proceeded to set up three NKVD agent networks to carry out the murder; these three networks were designed to operate entirely autonomously from the NKVD's hitherto-established spy networks in the U.S. and Mexico.[1]
On 24 May , Trotsky survived a raid on his villa by armed assassins led by the NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich and Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros.[2] Trotsky's year-old grandson, Vsevolod Platonovich "Esteban" Volkov (7 March – 16 June ), w
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Leon Trotsky bibliography
The following is a chronological list of books bygd Leon Trotsky, a Marxisttheoretician, including hardcover and paperback books and pamphlets published during his life and posthumously during the years immediately following his assassination in the northern summer of Included are the original Russian or German language titles and publication information, as well as the name and publication information of the first English language edition.
In the course of his life, Trotsky wrote about 30, documents, most of which are contained in various archives.[1] According to his biographer Isaac Deutscher stated that Trotsky wrote most of the Soviet's manifestos and resolutions, edited its Izvestia newspaper.[2]
This material represents a small fraction of the myriad of articles published by Trotsky during his life and afterwards, with the complete bibliography by Louis Sinclair running to nearly 1, printed pages.[3]
Maxim Lieber
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Trotsky: A Biography
Biography of Leon Trotsky by Robert Service
The first edition cover of the book, depicting Trotsky. | |
Author | Robert Service |
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Language | English |
Subject | Biography |
Publisher | Macmillan Publishers |
Publication date | |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Mediatype | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Awards | Duff Cooper Prize[1] |
Precededby | Stalin: A Biography |
Trotsky: A Biography is a biography of the Marxist theorist and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (–) written by the English historian Robert Service, then a professor in Russian history at the University of Oxford. It was first published by Macmillan in and later republished in other languages.
Having converted to the Marxist revolutionary movement in early life, Trotsky had been a member of the Bolshevik Party and a significant figure in the October Revolution of which brought the Bolsheviks to power in the Russian Empire. Following the death of Vladimir L