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especially strong among the youth: Jack Weber to Trotsky, November 22, 1937, Glotzer papers, box 4; Jan Frankel to Trotsky, December 23, 1937, TEP 1263; Israel Kugler to Trotsky, November 17, 1938, TEP 2422.

four out of seventy-five votes: Jan Frankel to Trotsky, January 2, 1938, TEP 1265.

“totalitarian” twins bearing a “deadly similarity”: Leon Trotsky,
The Revolution Betrayed,
Max Eastman, trans. (Dover, 2004), 208, 210.

This confounded the Trotskyists: Shachtman, “The Soviet Union and the World War,”
New International
, April 1940.

The Germans had launched their blitzkrieg: Craig II, 659–61.

the Soviets arrested and deported hundreds of thousands of Poles…Katyn Forest Massacre: Allen Paul,
Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Polish Massacre
(Scribner’s, 1991).

“The USSR in War”:
In Defense of Marxism,
3–21.

“nothing else would remain”:
In Defense Of Marxism,
9, 14–15.

took his followers by surprise: Glotzer, 315;
In Defense of Marxism,
30.

In Trotsky’s view, the Red Army…was serving as a vehicle for progress in Poland:
In Defense of Marxism,
18.

Shachtman had now joined forces with Burnham:
In Defense of Marxism
, ix–x; Deutscher III, 382.

Anatoly Lunacharsky…wrote a profile of him: Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky,
Revolutionary Silhouettes,
Michael Glenny, trans. (Penguin, 1967), 61–62, 66.

“a man of exceptional abilities”: Volkogonov, 18.

second congress of the Russian Social Democrats: Deutscher I, 60–69; Volkogonov, 25–28.

Our Political Tasks:
Knei-Paz, 176–199; Deutscher I, 73–77; Volkogonov, 30–31.

his break with the Mensheviks: Knei-Paz, 206–14.

His ineptitude as a conciliator: Deutscher I, 160–64; Knei-Paz, 180.

“the poisonous seeds of its own destruction”: Trotsky quoted in 31.

Trotsky turned down Lenin’s offer: Knei-Paz, 225.

“Go where you belong from now on: into the dustbin of history!”: Ulam, 363–73; Deutscher I, 259; Knei-Paz, 509; Glotzer, 125.

Trotsky’s passivity in the struggle to succeed Lenin: Glotzer, 149–53.

“In the time of revolutionary storm”: Eastman,
Heroes
, 258–59.

“sharing the bitter fate”: Ulam, 373.

Trotsky’s account of the October events:
Istoriia russkoi revoliutsii,
Vol. 2/2, 277–78.

Eastman…and his wife visited Prinkipo: Eastman,
Companions,
114–15.

Eastman was strikingly handsome: John P. Diggins, “Getting Hegel out of History: Max Eastman’s Quarrel with Marxism,”
American Historical Review,
Vol. 79, No. 1 (February 1974), 38–39 [hereafter: Diggins].

pale blue color of his eyes…kept insisting were black: Eastman,
Love and Revolution,
557–58.

“Trotsky’s throat was throbbing and his face was red”: Eastman,
Companions,
114.

twice tried and twice acquitted: Eastman,
Love and Revolution
, 85–99, 118–24.

an invitation from Lenin and Trotsky: Eastman,
Love and Revolution,
78.

Lenin’s still-secret political testament: Eastman,
Love and Revolution,
442–55.

the dialectic, a principle of change…“historical materialism”: Walter Kaufmann,
Hegel: A Reinterpretation
(University of Notre Dame Press, 1978), 153–62; Edmund Wilson,
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972), 210–30; Max Eastman, “Russia and the Socialist Ideal,”
Harper’s
, March 1938; George Novack, “Trotsky’s Views on Dialectical Materialism,” in
Leon Trotsky
, 94–102.

Eastman was puzzled by the connection…the library of the Marx-Engels Institute: Eastman,
Love and Revolution,
125–32, 416–18; Diggins, “Getting Hegel out of History.”

Marx and Lenin: The Science of Revolution:
Eastman,
Love and Revolution,
460–63.

Hook and Eastman were Dewey’s “bright boys”: Eastman,
Love and Revolution,
499–500.

“he became almost hysterical”: Eastman,
Companions,
115.

“to trim Marx’s beard”: Van, 63; Lunacharsky,
Revolutionary Silhouettes
, 66.

Eastman’s “petty-bourgeois revisionism”: Eastman,
Love and Revolution,
593–95.

fixated on the subject of Eastman’s heresy…“Pragmatism, empiricism is the greatest curse”: George Novack, “Trotsky’s Views on Dialectical Materialism,” in
Leon Trotsky,
94–102;
In Defense of Marxism,
44–47; Shachtman to Trotsky, March 5, 1939, TEP 5107.

an article in
Harper’s
in March 1938: Eastman, “Russia and the Socialist Idea.”

that Eastman be dealt with “mercilessly”: Trotsky to Burnham, March 22, 1939, TEP 7458.

Burnham was prepared to defend the October Revolution…but not dialectical materialism: Shachtman to Trotsky, March 5, 1939, TEP 5107.

Hook…Dewey…Edmund Wilson: Diggins, 59–60.

the “greatest blow”…“the best of gifts to the Eastmans of all kinds”: Trotsky to Shachtman, January 20, 1939, TEP 10337; Trotsky to Shachtman, March 9, 1939, Glotzer papers, box 3.

the intellectual equivalent of an appendectomy: Kelly, 77.

“Trotsky does not write on the dialectic”: Hansen to Trotsky, June 23, 1939, TC 18:12.

a defense of Marxism’s core principles: Trotsky to Cannon, January 9, 1940, TEP 7558; Knei-Paz, 485–86; Glotzer, 285–86.

Events in Europe in the autumn of 1939: Craig II, 659–61.

the Trotskyist Minority…proposed a referendum: Cannon to Trotsky, September 8 and October 26, 1939, TEP, 13874, 6222; Hansen to Reba Hansen, October 19, 1939, Hansen papers, 19:1;
In Defense of Marxism,
33.

the vote was eight to four: Cannon to Trotsky, November 8, 1939, TEP 523.

the Soviet invasion of Finland: Craig II, 661–62.

“A Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the Socialist Workers Party”:
In Defense of Marxism,
43–62.

“The ABC of Materialist Dialectics”:
In Defense of Marxism,
48–52.

not sure how it related to current debates: Hansen to Trotsky, January 1, 1940, TEP 1814.

“Cannon represents the proletarian party”:
In Defense of Marxism,
61.

his analysis of the Finnish events:
In Defense of Marxism,
56–59.

“moral and material support”: Stanley [Stanley Plastrik] to Trotsky, December 23, 1939, TEP 5379.

utterly fantastic: Manny Garrett [Geltman] to Bob, December 26, 1939, Glotzer papers, box 2; Burnham, “The Politics of Desperation,”
New International,
January 1940; Glotzer, 305–6.

the Old Man had gone “completely haywire”: Glotzer to John [Jan Frankel], January 21, 1940, Glotzer papers, box 12; Shachtman, “The Crisis in the American Party,”
New International,
March 1940.

Sherman Stanley…secretary-guard: Young to Charles Cornell, May 3, 1940, TEP 7239.

“the most monstrous and shameful non-sequitur”: Stanley [Stanley Plastrik] to Trotsky, December 23, 1939, TEP 5379.

“petty-bourgeois,” a time-honored Bolshevik term of abuse: Van, 130.

“L.D. has laid the gauntlet”: Manny Garrett [Geltman] to Bob, December 26, 1939, Glotzer papers, box 2.

“enraged petty-bourgeois”: Trotsky to Friends, December 27, 1939, TC 13:31.

“Stalinist agents working in our midst”: Trotsky to Cannon, December 29, 1939, TEP 7555.

laying the basis for a split: Hansen to Trotsky, January 1, 1940, TEP 1814.

“wrong side of the barricades”: Trotsky to Shachtman, December 20, 1939, TC 12:14.

Hansen’s…reputation for heavy-handed sarcasm: Stanley [Stanley Plastrik] to Trotsky, December 23, 1939, TEP 5379; Hansen to Trotsky, March 15, 1940, TEP 1820.

“declassed kibitzers” and “petty-bourgeois smart alecks”: Cannon to Trotsky, January 11, January 18, and February 20, 1940, TEP 530, 532, 6203.

a “madhouse”: Hansen to Trotsky, January 15, 1940, Hansen papers, 34:3.

“Where’s the civil war in Finland?”: Hansen to Trotsky, March 15, 1940, TEP 1820.

Howls of laughter: Hansen to Paul Anderson, March 7, 1940, Hansen papers, 18:6.

“provincials, blockheads, stupid yokels”: Hansen to Trotsky, January 15, 1940, Hansen papers, 34:3.

Trotsky gritted his teeth: Trotsky to Friends, January 3, 1940, TC 12:32.

He had lived in the Bronx: Trotsky obituary,
The New York Times,
August 22, 1940.

“The oppositionists, I am informed”:
In Defense of Marxism,
104.

“the Jewish petty-bourgeois elements”:
In Defense of Marxism,
109; also, Trotsky to Cannon, October 10, 1937, and March 27, 1939, TEP 7511, 8108.

“petty-bourgeois disdain”:
In Defense of Marxism,
145.

Burnham’s “brutal challenge”: Trotsky to Friends, January 3, 1940, TEP 7556.

“each contribution by the OM”: Cannon, “On the Party,” undated [spring 1940] manuscript, TEP 6238.

“The Finnish events were absolutely decisive”: Hansen to Trotsky, April 20, 1940, TEP 1823.

“petty-bourgeois windbags”: Cannon, “Measures to Combat a Split,” January 24, 1940, TEP 13879.

“a vigorous intervention in favor of unity”: Trotsky to Albert Goldman, February 19, 1940, TC 10:66.

“Back to the Party!”:
In Defense of Marxism,
153–55.

“enemies and traitors”…“war of political extermination”: Cannon to Trotsky, February 20, 1940, TEP 6203.

special convention of the Socialist Workers Party: Farrell Dobbs to Trotsky, April 10, 1940, TEP 799.

Shachtman announced…to form a separate party: Hansen to Trotsky, April 20, 1940, TEP 1823.

“The OM did nothing”: Stanley [Stanley Plastrik] quoted in Young to Trotsky, May 3, 1940, TEP 7239.

Frankel on the other side of the barricades…“the old
Iskra
days”: Young to Trotsky, May 3, 1940, TEP 7239; Young to Trotsky, July 6, 1940, TEP 6081; Van to Trotsky, March 4, 1940, TEP 5664; Dobbs to Trotsky, February 29, 1940, TEP 795.

Trotsky was shaken by the loss: Trotsky to Young, July 29, 1940, TEP 10953; Trotsky to Van, January 7 and February 27, 1940, TEP 10702, 10203.

a note to Trotsky: Sylvia Ageloff to Trotsky, January 25, 1940, TEP 122.

Sylvia was invited to come to the house: Trotsky to Sylvia Ageloff, January 26, 1940, TEP 11000.

“petty bourgeois Menshevism of the minority”: Robins to Rose Karsner, February 3, 1940, TC 24:16.

“the factional struggle provides a
perfect
cover”: Wright to Walter O’Rourke, March 28, 1940, TEP 7204.

As Sylvia left Trotsky’s home: “Memorandum of talk with Rosmers,” August 23, 1940, TC 24:6.

Chapter Ten: Lucky Strike

last will and testament: TC 22:4.

recent examination by his doctor: Hansen to Usick [Wright], September 21, 1940, TC 22:4.

“This magnetism is colossal”: Tucker,
Stalin as Revolutionary,
35–36.

“He was my master”:
My Life,
394.

London in October 1902:
My Life,
142–43; Deutscher I, 48–49; Ulam, 174–75.

“We were lying side by side”:
My Life,
327–28.

‘It’s a bowl of mush we have”:
Diary,
83–84.

an assassination attempt: Ulam, 428–30.

“He had a way of
falling in love
with people”:
Diary,
84.

“Lenin and I had several sharp clashes”:
Diary,
85.

Krupskaya writes to say:
My Life,
511.

Lenin’s testament: Deutscher II, 57–58; Ulam, 562–63.

Trotsky was pressured by Stalin…avoid a premature clash: Deutscher II, 169–70, 247–48; Eastman,
Love and Revolution,
442–55, 510–16.

Trotsky’s shabby treatment of Eastman: Cannon to Trotsky, February 20, 1940,

TEP 6203; Trotsky to Hansen, February 29, 1940, TEP 8444.

Max Eastman, accompanied by his wife…more mellow: Eastman,
Love and Revolution,
596; on Trotsky’s mellowing, see also Van, 27; Hansen, “With Trotsky in Coyoacan,” xxiii.

March 1940…Veracruz harbor: Buchman describes his films in “Black and White Roll,” TC 32:12.

Young was born Alexander Buchman: Buchman biography on Lubitz Trotskyana Net, http://www.trotskyana.net/Trotskyists/Bio-Bibliographies/bio-bibliographies.html; Suzi Weissman remembrance, Buchman, box 1.

arranged for him to visit Trotsky in Mexico: Frank Glass to Trotsky, August 30, 1939, TEP 1429; Cannon to Trotsky, October 27, 1939, TEP 520.

Trotsky’s cactus-hunting picnics: “Black and White Roll” Robins memoir, TC 30:1.

Avenida Viena 19: Irish O’Brien to Usick, May 14, 1939, TEP 12537; Hansen, “The Attempted Assassination of
Leon Trotsky,”
in Leon Trotsky, 5–12; Natalia, 251; Mosley, 37; Julius H. Klyman, “Revolutionist in Exile,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
March 26, 1940.

feeding his rabbits and chickens…began at the Blue House: Lillian to Sara Weber, December 30, 1938, and February 4, 1939, TEP 12487, 12488.

later arranged to purchase: Trotsky to Dear Friends, March 20 and April 16, 1940, TC 9:75, 9:77.

Rhode Island Reds…fifty in all: Hansen to Reba Hansen, October 13, 1939, Hansen papers, 19:1.

new three-decker cages: Al Goldman to Hansen, February 29, 1940, Hansen papers, 15:4; “Black and White Roll.”

the chief buck take a hard bite: Hansen to Reba Hansen, October 13, 1939, Hansen papers, 19:1.

“a flock of rabbits”: Eastman, “Political Murder à Outrance,”
The New Leader,
December 14, 1959.

quiz the guards: Klyman, “Revolutionist in Exile.”

“Well, that’s all there is”: “Black and White Roll.”

inspecting the alarm system: Buchman to Glotzer, January 5 and August 27, 1990, Glotzer papers, box 48.

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