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TROTSKY IN MEXICO. Approximately three-minute black-and-white silent home movie of Leon Trotsky,
4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$35,000 - US$45,000
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TROTSKY IN MEXICO.
Approximately three-minute black-and-white silent home movie of Leon Trotsky, 16 mm Ciné Kodak Panchromatic Safely Film, identified and dated in pencil on box "Thanksgiving 1938."
Apparently the only copy of this unknown film of the great Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, theorist and political leader. Taken by R.H. Wrubel in Mexico, this short movie shows Leon Trotsky on his balcony and joined by his wife, Natalia Sedova Trotsky (1882-1962), and other supporters. As founder and first leader of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky (1879-1940; born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein) was a hero of the Russian Revolution and one of the most important Marxists of the early 20th Century. When Lenin died in 1924, it was assumed that Trotsky would succeed him. But Josef Stalin, determined to take over the government, went after Trotsky as his most prominent rival. The old revolutionary was expelled from the Central Committee in 1927 and deported from the USSR in 1929. He eventually settled with his wife in Mexico City in January 1937, the guest of the painters Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Trotsky wrote of Natalia Sedova, "In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost 40 years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness" (Trotsky's Testament of February 27, 1940). However, that did not keep him from having an affair with Kahlo during their stay at her house. The Trotskys moved out in May 1940. On August 21, 1940, Stalin's emissary killed Trotsky with a pickax to the brain. Little movie footage of Trotsky in exile has survived.
Apparently the only copy of this unknown film of the great Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, theorist and political leader. Taken by R.H. Wrubel in Mexico, this short movie shows Leon Trotsky on his balcony and joined by his wife, Natalia Sedova Trotsky (1882-1962), and other supporters. As founder and first leader of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky (1879-1940; born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein) was a hero of the Russian Revolution and one of the most important Marxists of the early 20th Century. When Lenin died in 1924, it was assumed that Trotsky would succeed him. But Josef Stalin, determined to take over the government, went after Trotsky as his most prominent rival. The old revolutionary was expelled from the Central Committee in 1927 and deported from the USSR in 1929. He eventually settled with his wife in Mexico City in January 1937, the guest of the painters Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Trotsky wrote of Natalia Sedova, "In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost 40 years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness" (Trotsky's Testament of February 27, 1940). However, that did not keep him from having an affair with Kahlo during their stay at her house. The Trotskys moved out in May 1940. On August 21, 1940, Stalin's emissary killed Trotsky with a pickax to the brain. Little movie footage of Trotsky in exile has survived.