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dated March 1, 1956: Madame Trotsky's appeal

Trotsky's widow has telegraphed to the new Presidium of the Soviet Communist Party asking for "rehabilitation" of the late Bolshevik leader. Leon Trotsky, co-founder of the Soviet Union with Lenin, was banished from Russia in 1929 and died at the hands of assassins in Mexico in 1940. Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, the son of a Jewish chemist, he was a veteran Russian revolutionary. He was twice arrested and exiled to Siberia before the 1917 Revolution. With Lenin, he took over the Government in November 1917, and became Commissar for Foreign Affairs and War. With the death of Lenin in 1923, Trotsky's influence declined and Stalin gradually ousted him from his posts. In 1927, Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and, in 1929, he was deported to Turkey. He subsequently lived in France, Norway and Mexico.

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