Leon Trotsky, Communist theorist and government official, was born in 1879, in Yankova, Ukraine. He served under Lenin as commissar of foreign affairs and of war, 1914-1924. He lost the struggle for power with Stalin after Lenin's death and was exiled. He was assassinated in Mexico on 20 August 1940.
Published
RC0724
Contains a letter written by Leon Trotsky to the Student League of Canada.
Item (39-1997) was acquired from Dr. Karl Freeman in December 1997.
Further accruals are not expected.
Letter located with the Tim Buck collection.
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