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...Spain and ten weeks in the U. S., where he played in My Official Wife with Clara Kimball Young, worked as a waiter in a restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after the March Revolution of 1917, where he joined Lenin, helped to stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol, he wired Lenin to ask whether he should wear a tailcoat to the peace celebration. Lenin answered: "If it will help to bring peace...
...crushed Imperial Army into a new Red Army, drove the Whites and their allies out of Russia; the proclaiming of the Third International when he hoped that world revolution was at hand. There were also mistakes to remember, particularly the mistake of failing to return to Moscow for Lenin's funeral, a failure which under mined his popularity with the people, made him vulnerable to Stalin's intrigue. There followed expulsion from the Polit buro, exile to Turkestan, to Turkey, to France, to Norway, finally to Mexico, where last week fate caught up with...
...First International had been formed in London in 1864, based on the famed Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels. But it had already died of talk. The Second International (founded in Paris in 1889) for which Lenin and Trotsky worked was a loose association of national labor organizations and Socialist parties, of which the Russian parties had the most revolutionary vigor...
...schisms, numbered less than 5,000 members. Trotsky still believed the revolt of the workers would succeed. The force of that illusion made him a greater man than Joseph Stalin. It made him the man who did more to shake the world in his time than any except Lenin and Hitler...
...dictatorship had reached from one hemisphere to the other. But so low had the intellectual level of Communism fallen that there was not left an orthodox or heterodox Marxist capable of phrasing for murdered Comrade Trotsky 13 words comparable to those he spoke into the hush that followed Lenin's death: "Lenin is dead. The words are like great rocks falling into...