Russian Communist leader (1879–1940) who, with Lenin, organized the Bolshevik seizure of power during the October Revolution of 1917. In 1929, five years after Lenin's death, Stalin defeated Trotsky for control of the Communist party and banished him from Russia. Trotsky spent most of the remainder of his life in Mexico, where he was assassinated with a pickaxe by a Stalinist agent. World War I-dated ANS in Cyrillic, signed “L. Trotsky,” one page, 7.5 x 8.75, July 1918. An untranslated handwritten note from Leon Trotsky that he has scrawled prominently in blue pencil across the front of a typed letter from the office of the Military-Economic Administration, which requests the permanent removal of two employees from the military department. In fine condition, with trimmed edges.
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