Word: sedova
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Natalie Sedova Trotsky: "It is now clear to the world that the tradition of the October Revolution and of Lenin and Trotsky is carried on only by the Fourth [Trotskyite] International...
...terrible heat and light and stench that filled the room, with the fire roaring and smoke pouring out of the open door, his last attendants saw Trotsky burning, his face turning black and shriveling away, his body shrinking so fast that he seemed to be writhing in pain. Natalie Sedova Trotsky was carried fainting...
...thought he had been shot. He leaped from his chair, grappled with his assailant, bit his hand. Even with a knife and a pistol and a mattock, young Jackson did not know how to cope with the old man. Trotsky screamed, staggered into the dining room. Faithful Natalie Sedova met Jackson at the door, threw herself on him. Then came Bodyguards Jake Cooper and Joseph Hansen. Cooper clubbed Jackson, knocked him down, kicked his head and body. Hansen lowered Trotsky to the floor. Leon Trotsky, blood streaming from his broken skull, called to Cooper: "Don't kill him. This...
Trotsky the historian remembered, even in the face of death, that history must record his end. To Natalie Sedova, who hovered over him, he told what had happened in the study. "I feel here," said Trotsky, pointing to his heart, "that this time they have succeeded...
...hours and 30 minutes Leon Trotsky hung on to life with the tenacity that had distinguished his career since he became a revolutionary at the age of 17. In the hospital he underwent two brain operations while his assassin was treated in a room across the hall. Natalie Sedova never left him. He lost consciousness soon after he was put to bed. If a man's past life passes before him at such times, some strange scenes appeared to Trotsky in his coma: the first trip of nine-year-old Lev Davidovich Bronstein from the farm in Kherson Province...