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Did Leon Trotsky read often?

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I read an anecdote about Trotsky in a book by Bill Bryson. Trotsky was living in Vienna, and due to poverty, spent all his time nursing a cup of coffee and reading the free newspapers the cafe provided for customers. read more

Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879, the fifth child of a Ukrainian Jewish family of wealthy farmers in Yanovka or Yanivka, in the Kherson governorate of the Russian Empire (now Bereslavka, in Ukraine), a small village 24 kilometres (15 mi) from the nearest post office. read more

Because he was a bogeyman. When he was alive Stalin could hold up Trotsky as a tangible enemy to be feared and villified. The reason Trotsky was assassinated was specifically because he was in talks with the US. read more

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