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...many respects, Trotsky underestimated Stalin, whom he dismissed as a "gray, colorless mediocrity." In the early 1930s, his letters show, Trotsky believed he would soon be restored to power in Moscow. Trotsky's secretary in the years of exile, Frenchman Jean van Heijenoort, who catalogued the letters at Harvard, told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin that only Hitler's rise and the destruction of the German Communist Party in 1933 shattered Trotsky's hopes...
...papers won't reveal many new historical revelations; instead they will help to "show Trotsky as a person," his former bodyguard, van Heijenoort said. Other scholars added that the documents show Trotsky was hardworking and unafraid, although realistic about his chances for survival...
...papers offer no new insights on a "broad, political, conceptual plane but on a day to day basis they show Trotsky as a man," Jean van Heijenoort, Trotsky's former bodyguard and chief aide said yesterday...
...picture is a bit different from the published writings," van Heijenoort said. "The letters show the ways his mind worked," he added...
...Trotsky's diary, were sold to Harvard by Sedova. But the growth of the Trotsky archives did not stop even there. Some of the papers which had never been sent on to Mexico were hidden from the Germans in France during the war by the family of John van Heijenoort, Trotsky's secretary for more than 10 years. In the late 1950's van Heijenoort, now a professor of Philosophy at Brandeis and special bibliographer for Harvard's library, returned to Europe and prepared the documents for shipment to Cambridge...