#leon trotsky

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I dreamed up an entire documentary about Leon Trotsky. I have no idea if it was historically accurate, but it ended with him walking into a lamp post.

#dream #text #leon trotsky #documentary #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

[cosmonautroger]

Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo, Natalya Sedova, 1937

#Leon Trotsky #Frida Kahlo #Natalya Sedova #1937

[pazzesco]

Frida Kahlo & the Revolutionary

Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, 1937

Natalya Sedova (Trotsky's 2nd wife), Frida Kahlo & Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician. He was a central figure in the October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union. He was born into a wealthy Russian Jewish family, but embraced Marxism when he was 18. After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky was outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin and he and his allies were exiled to Alma Ata in 1928, and deported in 1929. He lived in various countries before settling in Mexico in 1937.

Trotsky and Kahlo became lovers after Kahlo and Diego Rivera sponsored his move to Mexico. Kahlo and Rivera offered the Trotskys their second home, the now famed Casa Azul, equipping it with guards, barricades, covered windows, and alarm systems to ensure their political hero’s safety.

Leon Trotsky and his wife arrive in Tampico, Mexico, surrounded by police and artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images.

In the summer of 1940, Frida Kahlo found herself in jail. Mexico City police suspected her as an accomplice in the murder of Leon Trotsky. Several days prior to her arrest, he’d been gruesomely offed with an ice pick.

His murder—and her implication in the crime—was a dramatic turn of events, especially considering that Kahlo and Trotsky had been giddy lovers just three years earlier.

She gave Trotsky a self-portrait. The note she holds reads: “To Leon Trotsky, with all my love, I dedicate this painting on 7th November 1937. Frida Kahlo in Saint Angel, Mexico.”

The politician’s secretary, Jean van Heijenoort, remembered the pair’s blatant flirtations under the nose of Trotsky’s wife. Sedova didn’t understand English, the language in which the lovers communicated. They met clandestinely at Kahlo’s sister’s house, and Trotsky slipped love notes into books he lent her. Kahlo and Trotsky’s meek attempts at discretion didn’t prevent Sedova from discovering the affair. She gave her husband a “me-or-her ultimatum,” and he and Frida ended their affair.

Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo, 1937

Leon Trotsky delivering a speech in Copenhagen, Denmark. , 1932

By May 1940, fellow Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Trotsky (Rivera was an early suspect in the case). He wasn’t as lucky several months later. On August 20th, Ramón Mercader, an undercover agent working for Stalin, killed Trotsky with an ice pick. Kahlo had met Mercader in Paris the previous year, and was brought in for questioning by the Mexican police. She was released a day later, and soon after traveled to San Francisco, where Rivera was working on a mural.

"Friends recall that long after Trotsky’s assassination Kahlo delighted in driving Rivera into a rage by humiliating him with the memory of her affair with the great Communist.”

Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait in Red and Gold Dress, 1941

#frida kahlo #leon trotsky #Natalya Sedova #Diego Rivera #paintings #self portrait #art #cummunist #trotskyism #Ramón Mercader

[anamon-book]

トロツキズム　対馬忠行 風媒社

#トロツキズム #Trotskyism #tadayuki tsushima #対馬忠行 #leon trotsky #Trotsky #トロツキー #レフ・トロツキー #anamon #古本屋あなもん #あなもん #book cover

[dailytrotsky]

#I don't often come across pictures I've never seen before! #leon trotsky #trotsky #lenin #vladimir lenin #russian revolution

[victusinveritas]

#brooklyn 99 #leon trotsky

[omgthatdress]

Gilded Elegance Met Gala squad goals.

#Met Gala #Karl Marx #Leon Trotsky #Emma Goldman #Rosa Luxemburg #Lucy Parsons

[davidhudson]

Leon Trotsky, November 7, 1879 – 21 August 1940.

#leon trotsky

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Since Trotsky came to Mexico I have understood his error. I was never a Trotskyist.

- Frida Kahlo

In the summer of 1940, Frida Kahlo found herself in jail. Mexico City police suspected her as an accomplice in the murder of the embattled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Several days prior to her arrest, he’d been gruesomely offed with an ice pick. His murder - and her implication in the crime - was a dramatic turn of events, especially considering that Kahlo and Trotsky had been giddy lovers just three years earlier; she’d even dedicated a striking self-portrait to him.

Kahlo had many romantic partners over the course of her short life (she died in 1954 at 47), but few resulted in dedicated paintings—and fewer pointed explicitly to her political beliefs. The liaison with Trotsky did both. Although their romance only lasted several months, it offers a window into Kahlo’s politics and how deeply they influenced her work.

Kahlo and Trotsky first met in 1937, when the painter was 29 and the politician was 57. Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, were vocal supporters of Marxism and had been on-and-off members of the Mexican Communist Party for a decade, since 1927. Influenced by the Mexican Revolution at the turn of the century, they advocated for a populist government and believed political power should rest in the hands of the working class.

By the mid-1930s, Kahlo and Rivera both considered themselves Trotskyites. They’d followed the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism closely, and knew Trotsky as a hero of the 1917 October Uprising, which cemented Vladimir Lenin and the Socialist regime’s rise to dominance. But when Joseph Stalin assumed leadership in 1924, he consolidated power and demoted Trotsky, exiling him for good in 1929. As a result, the Communist party fractured into two main camps: Stalinists and Trotskyites.

It was Rivera who convinced Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas to offer Trotsky political asylum in Mexico. After several years in Turkey, France, and Norway, Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova boarded an oil tanker and docked in Tampico, Mexico on January 9, 1937. Rivera was sick, so Kahlo greeted them at the port, along with a troop of armed guards.

Kahlo and Rivera offered the Trotskys their second home, the now famed Casa Azul, equipping it with guards, barricades, covered windows, and alarm systems to ensure their political hero’s safety. Sedova recalled the beginnings of the trip fondly in a letter to friends: “We were breathing purified air…A motorcar…carried us across the fields of palms and cacti to the suburbs of Mexico City; a blue house, a patio filled with plants, airy rooms, collections of Pre-Columbian art, paintings from all over: we were on a new planet, in Rivera’s house.”

It wasn’t long after the Russian couple settled in that a romance developed between Kahlo and Trotsky. The politician’s secretary, Jean van Heijenoort, remembered the pair’s blatant flirtations under the nose of Trotsky’s wife. Sedova didn’t understand English, the language in which the lovers communicated. They met clandestinely at Kahlo’s sister’s house, and Trotsky slipped love notes into books he lent her. Kahlo and Trotsky’s meek attempts at discretion didn’t prevent Sedova from discovering the affair. She gave her husband a “me-or-her ultimatum. It seems that Kahlo tired of the romance around the same time. Despite their split, the two remained friends for some time until Trotsky’s murder.

Photo: Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (right), Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (centre), and revolutionary and wife of Trotsky Natalia Sedova, photographed Together In Mexico In 1937.

#leon trotsky #trotsky #frida kahlo #kahlo #art #artist #marxist #communism #comunnist #mexico #russia #revolutionary #relationship #diego rivera #history #stalin #russian revolution #bolshevik #arts #society #politics

[jocrude]

What is the Marxist Explanation for the fact that all the old Bolsheviks look like knockoff versions of each other?

#marxism #bolshevism #vladimir lenin #nikolai bukharin #leon trotsky #yakov sverdlov #josef stalin #lev kamenev #leftcom

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León Trotski

#leon trotsky

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Anti Bolshevik art depicting Leon trotsky and a skeleton

#why did they make trotksy kinda hot #leon trotsky #socialism #art

[dynamobooks]

George Orwell: Djurens gård (1945)

#george orwell #animal farm #literature #allegory #soviet union #revolution #totalitarianism #stalin #leon trotsky

[dailytrotsky]

Hey I just want to be clear about something.

These are icepicks:

They're used for chipping ice

These are iceaxes:

They're used for mountain climbing.

The assassin Mercader struck Trotsky with a modified iceaxe he had hid in his coat.

Trotsky did not die immediately from his injury however, but turned around and fought his attacker until his security came in and took hold of Mercader.

Trotsky hung on until the next day, when he died in hospital with his wife and grandson by his side.

38 years later Mercader himself died, and his fearful last words were about Trotsky, "I know he's waiting for me on the other side."

#Trotsky #Leon Trotsky #icepick joe #goncharov #just want to clear this up since a lot of people are making connections between Trotsky and Icepick Joe #I'm not saying don't do that #I just want everyone to be clear that the way Trotsky went out was metal

[obsidian-sphere]

Liberty Magazine, Jan. 27, 1940, art by Victor Tchetchet

#victor tchatchet #leon trotsky

[ierofrnkk]

baby’s first revolution!

#jay baruchel #the trotsky #leon bronstein #leon trotsky #my edit #shaking him #he’s so cringe