Trotskii Lev Leon Trotsky (2 results)

tapa blanda. Condition: 2ª Mano. 2ª Mano. Ediciones Akal, S.A. 1975. Akal 74, 11. Libro.

Softcover. Single issue - 10th Year, March 1938, No. 64; 7 1/4 x 10 3/4; pp. 16; stapled wraps; uniform age-toning; horizontal fold line through middle; last leaf with a thin split along crease; illustrated with photographs; good to very good.A special issue commemorating Lev Sedov and his death a few weeks prior to publication. He was Leon Trotsky's son and editor of the journal from July 1929 to February 1938. Though the official cause of his death was ruled as complications after an appendectomy, it is believed he was murdered by agents of Stalin in Paris. Though he was a leader in his own right in the Trotskyist Movement and worked alongside his father on the journal, his name was hardly mentioned in print until this current issue as a way of protection. The Bulletin of the Opposition was published alternately in Paris and Berlin from 1929 to 1941 - at irregular intervals and never exceeding 1000 copies - by Leon Trotsky, who wrote the majority of the content, and with contributions by various exile authors. The journal was intended "to serve the present needs of the oppositional struggle" and would ultimately number 65 issues (several of them double for a total of 87 numbers) and would be of various page count and size so as to make it easier to be smuggled into the Soviet Union by diplomats, sailors, etc. The current volume contains history of the life of Lev Sedov as well as letters of condolences received after his passing. 2.…