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2 days ago · Nahum Isaakovich Eitingon (Russian: Наум Исаакович Эйтингон Naum Isaakovič Ejtingon), also known as Leonid Aleksandrovich Eitingon (Russian: Леонид Александрович Эйтингон) (6 December 1899 – 3 May 1981), was a Soviet intelligence officer, who gained prominence through his involvement in several NKVD operations, including the assassination of ...
2 days ago · The NKVD nearly annihilated Trotsky's family before killing him in Mexico; the NKVD agent Ramón Mercader was part of an assassination task force put together by Special Agent Pavel Sudoplatov, under the personal orders of Stalin.
2 days ago · In January 1918, he survived an assassination attempt in Petrograd; Fritz Platten, who was with Lenin at the time, shielded him and was injured by a bullet. Concerned that the German Army posed a threat to Petrograd, in March 1918 Sovnarkom relocated to Moscow, initially as a temporary measure.
1 day ago · The failed assassination attempt blew up Reilly’s complex plan. Not only was Lenin suddenly unable to make the meeting where Reilly would have had both him and Trotsky kidnapped and killed, but the failure being apparently (albeit erroneously in this case) tied to a foreign power dramatically increased support for the Bolsheviks.
4 days ago · Who was Leon Trotsky? What was Leon Trotsky’s role in the October Revolution? What did Leon Trotsky believe? What was the relationship between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin? How did Leon Trotsky die?
Jul 26, 1999 · In the period from 1606 to 1613, during the so-called Time of Troubles, chaos gripped most of central Muscovy; Muscovite boyars, Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian Cossacks, and assorted mobs of adventurers and desperate citizens were among the chief actors.
5 days ago · To the late Isaac Deutscher, the author of biographies of Trotsky and Stalin—who, like Carr, broadly accepts Trotsky’s version of Stalin as a somewhat mediocre personage—Stalin represents a lamentably deviant element in the evolution of Marxism.
