Descriptive Summary
Title:
Trotsky Collection, 1917-1980
Extent:
Number of containers: 45 ms. boxes, 4 envelopes, 2 phonorecords.
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract:
Writings and correspondence of the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky, including
drafts of articles and books, correspondence with John G. Wright and other leaders of the
Socialist Workers Party of the United States, and typed copies of correspondence with V.
I. Lenin; correspondence and reports of secretaries of Trotsky and leaders of the
Socialist Workers Party, relating especially to efforts to safeguard Trotsky and to his
assassination; records of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky and of
the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow
Trials; correspondence and writings of Nataliia Sedova Trotskaia and of Lev Sedov; and
published and unpublished material relating to Trotsky. Assembled from records of the
Socialist Workers Party and from papers of Wright and other party leaders. Also includes
detailed summaries of correspondence in the Trotsky Papers at Harvard University.
Language:
Russian
and
English.
