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Just four months before an agent of Joseph Stalin's secret police shattered his skull with an alpine axe in 1940, Bolshevik Revolutionary Leader Leon Trotsky sold his confidential correspondence to Harvard for $10,000. Last week the university's Houghton Library unveiled it. Included were Trotsky's own copies of 17,500 letters written by him and to him from 1927 to 1940, and kept under wraps ever since at Trotsky's own insistence, in order to protect his correspondents from Stalin's possible retribution...
Huddled in the reading room of Houghton library, bespectacled researchers, like little boys at Christmas, gasped and grunted in surprise last week, as they read through the catalogue outlining the University's recently-released collection of the papers of Leon Trotsky...
More than 30 experts on Leon Trotsky gathered at Houghton Library yesterday to pore over the Russian revolutionary's 17,500 letters and papers which the library released yesterday...
...collection includes letters from several American groups, among them the Communist League for Struggle and the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky...