Trotsky 
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SOURCE: The Guardian
9-13-17
Bloodstained ice axe used to kill Trotsky emerges after decades in the shadows
Weapon used in 1940 assassination to go on display next year – but why did Ramón Mercader, armed with a gun and a dagger, resort to the ice pick?
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1-13-16
Review of Donna T. Haverty-Stacke’s “Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since The Age of FDR”
by Murray Polner
A fascinating look at the group of intellectuals who pledged allegiance to Trotsky and the federal government's campaign to disrupt their party.
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SOURCE: NYT Book Review
11-26-14
NYT lauds newest biography of Stalin. It's by Stephen Kotkin.
Kotkin's new study depicts Stalin as an autodidact, an astute thinker, “a people person” with “surpassing organizational abilities; a mammoth appetite for work; a strategic mind and an unscrupulousness that recalled his master teacher, Lenin."
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