Trotsky

He had another spiritual ancestor -- in terms of transparent diplomacy, at least -- in Leon Trotsky.

Ducking into a corner of their bedroom to avoid the cross fire, Trotsky and his wife managed to escape unscathed.

In Mexico, cactus hunting became, for a time, Trotsky's chief form of exercise and something of an obsession.

Trotsky and his wife, Natalia, loved to picnic in the Mexican countryside, always accompanied by several well-armed bodyguards.

Nor didany Marxist thinker until Stalin imagine that this was possible, includingLenin, Trotsky and the rest of the Bolshevik leadership.

Trotsky always claimed that he was just trying to buy the Bolsheviks some time with his 'neither war nor peace' strategy.

Looking on, Trotsky's wife, Natalia, joked about this punishing form of "penal labor. "

It was a novel ploy, but unfortunately, it didn't take the Germans long to figure out that Trotsky was all words and no action.

And in fairness, Trotsky was making the best of a very bad situation with very bad choices.

Trotsky: "We did not seek to advance Chiang. We did not send him our autographed portraits. "

But like Trotsky, the EU is all words and no action.

An emergency Central Committee session was called on April 13. Chiang's purge appeared to give Trotsky and Zinoviev the opening they needed.

In this photo, Trotsky is wearing his favorite blue denim jacket, the same one he would be wearing when the murderer finally came.

Buchman helped rewire the intricate alarm system and for several months served as one of Trotsky's guards.

Over the years, the idealized image of Trotsky as the enlightened alternative to Stalin steadily faded.

Insofar as I had any project in mind, it was to reconcile Trotsky and the orchids.

Trotsky's thought on New Economic Policy was endowed with penetrating judgement as well as the obvious contradictions, even erros.

After these fortifications were completed, Trotsky likened his home to a medieval fortress.

He had very strong connections with all the committees in Russia and tricked Trotsky in Lenin's funeral.

I was afraid that Trotsky (whose Literature and Revolution I had nibbled at) would not have approved of my interest in orchids.

In 1905, Trotsky characterized tsarist Russia as "the vicious combination of the Asian knout [whip] and the European stock market. "

Leon Trotsky foresaw precisely such an end tothe Soviet Union , and was proved right some twentyyears ago.

Stalin and his ally Bukharin were only following Lenin's own advice, and who were Trotsky and Zinoviev to dispute Lenin?

By justice I meant what Norman Thomas and Trotsky both stood for, the liberation of the weak from the strong.

Prior to 1924, the Bolshevik's international perspective had been guided by Trotsky's position.

Today, trotsky priests are the most revered figures in many rural areas.

In October, 1917, Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin organized an armed uprising to overthrow the Provisional Government.

In January 1940, the burgeoning bunny population was transferred to new threedecker cages that Trotsky had designed.

It is capitalism, not communism, that generates what the communist Leon Trotsky once called "permanent revolution" .

On February 10th, 1918, Trotsky unilaterally declared the end of hostilities, picked up his bags and headed back to Moscow.

Trotsky was afflicted with high blood pressure and fatigue, and Natalia felt that he needed to take time to relax.

But listening to the reliable defenders of the wealthy, you'd think that Ms. Warren was the second coming of Leon Trotsky.

Trotsky, manipulating reel and rod, appears vibrant.

Trotsky could muster only five votes against adjournment.

Leon Trotsky had once defiantly stated that it was 'the worst sort of bourgeois prejudice' to call slave labor inefficient;

Two old "Chinese Trotskyist" said that Wang Duqing has indeed joined the Trotsky in his later period.

After his banishment Trotsky's supporters were soon also expelled.

And then they struck hard: on July 5, they charged that Trotsky and Zinoviev had no understanding of the Chinese situation.

The cactuses were then transplanted to the large patio of Trotsky's fortresslike villa.

Trotsky's part has been completely erased from Soviet textbooks.

Evgenia was Trotsky's secretary at the time.

'Neither war nor peace, ' said Trotsky.

Trotsky bought himself eight days.

Her ideas are patterned on Trotsky's.

Trotsky lived in turn in Turkey, France, Norway and finally Mexico.

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