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...Davidovich Bronstein, middleaged, nearsighted, hooknosed, big-lipped, spectacled, with a shock of greying hair, is an exile on the island of Prinkipo in the Sea of Marmosa. Once, as Leon Trotsky, he was second most powerful Russian. Lenin's right-hand man. In My Life he gives the story of his rise, decline, fall...
...There he married Alexandra Lvovna, revolutionary coworker, because the work that we were doing bound us closely together." Two years later Trotsky escaped. On the fake passport friends provided he wrote the name Trotsky: of his several aliases that one somehow stuck. In London he met Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), worked with him on the Iskra, revolutionary magazine. Lenin and Trotsky had many a difference of opinion and one serious argument: Trotsky left Lenin for the Mensheviki (moderates), but during the Revolution became a Bolshevik again. Says he of Lenin: "He was my master. This does not mean that...
...landed in Manhattan. When the Russian Revolution broke he had a hard time getting back to Russia, was interned "in a prison camp in Canada for a month. Triumphant was his arrival in Petrograd. He was made People's Commissar for foreign affairs; when Kerensky fell and Lenin came into power Trotsky was second in command. Lenin died at the height of his popularity, and Death canonized him. But Trotsky lived on, and Trotskyism (doctrine of "permanent revolution") grew more & more out of fashion. In January 1928, Trotsky and his followers, hopelessly in the minority, were ordered into exile...
...strong will, and persistence in carrying out his aims. His political horizon is restricted, his theoretical equipment primitive. The fact that today he is playing first is not so much a summing-up of the man as it is of this transitional period of political backsliding in the country." Lenin, says Trotsky, never liked nor trusted Stalin, but of Trotsky he said-"There has been no better Bolshevik...
...Oriental state is Communist. The focus of Communism is in European, not Asiatic Russia. Marx and Lenin, chief architects of Communism, were born respectively in Prussia and European Russia...