Trotsky (54 page)

prisoner of ideology, 54, 305–6

propositions Frida’s sister, Cristina, 71–72

relationship with Natalia, 68–70, 118–19

relationship with son Lyova, 102, 109–12, 115–17, 276–77

reputation of, in post-glasnost Russia, 303–4

Rivera, and security furnished by, 92–93

Rivera arranges Mexican asylum for and aids with finances and security, 17–19, 86, 92–95, 132

Rivera portraits of, in
Portrait of America
and
Man at the Crossroads,
85–86

Rivera’s revolutionary painting and, 78, 86

Rivera, Trotsky’s first contacts with, 84

Russian Revolution and, 8, 21–23, 74–77, 180, 187, 215–17, 231–33

secretary Frankel and, 56–57, 182

secretary “Van” Heijenoort and, 56–57

secretary Wolfe and, 56

secret meeting with GPU agent Blumkin on Prinkipo, 120

security and household of, in Mexico, 10–11, 31, 125–33

security for, after May 1940 assassination attempt, 262–66, 277–81

security for, at Avenida Viena house, 237–44, 251–52

security for, in Mexico, 92–95, 120–29, 132–39

son Lyova and exile of, 56, 99–103, 181

son Lyova’s
Red Book on the Moscow Trial
and, 110

son Lyova’s request to join, in Mexico refused by, 113–15

son Seryozha and, 61–63, 100–101

son Seryozha’s arrest and murder by Stalin, 77–78, 177

Soviet citizenship of, rescinded, 105

Soviet invasion of Poland and, 211–13

Spanish civil war and, 10–11, 123–24

Stalin orders assassination of, in Operation Duck, 174–78, 200

Stalin’s hatred for, and desire to liquidate, 9, 178–79

struggle vs. Stalin, after Lenin’s death, 89, 216

struggle vs. Stalin, after Revolution, 26–28

takes pseudonym of Leon Trotsky, 25

tension of, in Coyoacán house, 56–58, 129–31

travels to Taxco, 55–56, 201–2

travels to Veracruz for fishing, 235–36

travels with Breton and Rivera, 161–65

travels with Rivera, 91–93

warns Lenin on danger of centralism, 45

World War II and, 1

writes about Moscow show trials, 14

writes “Art and Politics” for
Partisan Review,
155–58

writes biography of Lenin, 2, 30, 180–83

writes biography of Stalin, 1, 2, 11, 182–88, 195–97, 229, 230, 252, 258, 253, 273–74

writes book on Moscow trials, 181–82

writes
History of the Russian Revolution,
translated by Eastman, 1–2, 8, 101, 156, 184, 217–18, 220, 305

writes last will and testament, 230, 234–25

writes “Lenin is no more” eulogy, 192

writes
Life
article on Stalin, 197–98

writes
Literature and Revolution,
149–50, 155, 164–65

writes Lyova’s obituary, 117

writes magazine articles on WW II, 2

writes
My Life
autobiography, 8, 101, 179, 191–92

writes
On Lenin,
148

writes
Our Political Tasks,
215

writes “Petty-Bourgeois Opposition,” 223

writes
Revolution Betrayed,
181–82, 211, 221

writes “USSR in War,” 212–13

writing by, in exile, 178–88

writing method and skill of, and dictation, 183–85, 283

WW II and, 9–10, 201–4

Trotsky, Lev “Lyova” (son).
See
Sedov, Leon “Lyova”

Trotsky, Natalia (second wife).
See
Sedova, Natalia

Trotsky, Nina (daughter).
See
Bronstein, Nina

Trotsky, Sergei “Seryozha” (son).
See
Sedov, Sergei “Seryozha”

Trotsky, Seva (grandson).
See
Volkov, Vsevelod “Seva”

Trotsky, Zina (daughter).
See
Volkova, Zinaida “Zina”

Trotskyists, 8, 101 108, 123, 140, 154–55, 161, 176.
See also
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky; American Trotskyists; Bolshevik-Leninists; Fourth International; French Trotskyists; Mexican League; Socialist Workers Party;
and specific individuals

death of Trotsky and, 301–3

form Fourth International, 203–4

Tsaritsyn (
later
Stalingrad), Battle of (1918), 151

Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail, 51, 52

Turkey, 8, 14, 33, 58, 91, 101–3, 178–79, 188–89, 217–18, 220, 305

Ukraine, famine of 1932–33, 46

Union for Repatriation of Russians Abroad, 143

Union of Soviet Writers, 150

United Press, 94

United States

asylum for Trotsky and, 20

WW I and, 22

U.S. House of Representatives

Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC, Dies Committee), 250

U.S. Justice Department, 298

U.S. Senate, Internal Security Subcommittee hearings, 300

Universal, El
(newspaper), 172

“USSR in War, The” (Trotsky), 212–13

Van Heijenoort, Gaby, 131

Van Heijenoort, Jean “Van,” 33,
42,
56, 58, 60–61, 63–65, 70, 72, 93–95, 105–7, 110, 112,
121,
276, 298

Breton visit and, 147–48, 160–65

death of Trotsky and, 292

life of, after death of Trotsky, 300–301, 303

Rivera and, 87–88, 170

security and, 119–22, 126–27, 129–33, 137–38, 142, 239–41, 280

writing contracts and, 182

Vasconcelos, José, 79

Venida de Trotsky, La
(Apollo skit), 30

Vidali, Vittorio.
See
Contreras, Carlos

Villa, Pancho, 78, 246

Voice of the Federation, The,
126

Volkov, Vsevelod “Seva” (grandson), 230

custody battle for, 118, 186, 195

death of parents, 103–5, 107

in exile with Lyova, 109

life of, after assassination, 295–96, 305

meets half sister Alexandra, in Russia, 304

in Mexico with Trotsky and Natalia, 4–7, 195, 198–99, 201, 238–39, 245, 253, 254, 265, 268, 287, 292

Volkova, Zina (daughter), 77, 78

daughter Alexandra meets Seva, 304

illness and death of, 99, 103–7

Voltaire, 39

Voroshilov, Kliment, 151, 157, 294–95

Voz de Mexico, La
(Communist newspaper), 274

Vyshinsky, Andrei, 32, 34, 109

Waldorf-Astoria riot of 1934, 241

Washington Post, The,
53

“watchful revolutionary censorship,” 149–50

Weber, Sara, 138, 184–85, 242

Weil, Ruby, 205

“What is Living and What is Dead in Marxism?” (
Partisan Review
symposium), 156

What Is to Be Done?
(Lenin), 219

White Armies, 8, 22–27, 52, 232

Wilhelmshaven sailors’ revolt, 52

Wilson, Edmund, 153–54, 221

Wolf, Erwin, 123, 137, 204

Wolfe, Bernard, 55–56,
121
, 122

Wolfe, Bertram, 80–82, 85–86, 156

Workers Defense League, 298

Workers Party (Minority faction of Socialist Workers Party), 271

World War I, 10, 204, 218

Russian Revolution and, 21–22, 204, 215–16

World War II, 1–2, 154, 176, 196–97, 201–4, 211–13, 228, 266, 269, 273, 282, 293, 301

Wright, John, 229

Yagoda, Genrikh, 133, 139, 197

Yanovitch, Fanny, 258

Yezhov, Nikolai, 139, 145

Young, Al, 235–41, 243, 245

Yudenich, Gen. Nikolai, 27

Zaitsev, Ivan Vasilevich, 191

Zamora, Adolfo, 303

Zamora, Francisco, 50

Zapata, Emiliano, 78, 85

Zborowski, Mark (Étienne, “Mack,” “Tulip”), 112–13, 115, 119, 139–43, 199–200, 298–301

death of Lyova and, 142

Fourth International attended by, with report to Stalin, 204–5

reported captured in German invasion of France in WW II, 269

Zinoviev, Grigory, 9, 16, 96, 176, 189, 191, 194, 304

Zola, Émile, 39, 50, 148, 160

Zollinger, Dr. Alfred, 230, 234

Zweig, Stefan, 159