“Lev Davidovich!”: Glotzer, 50.
Zina was already mentally unstable…worshipped her father: Deutscher III, 117–21; Volkogonov, 348–53.
“I am a good-for-nothing”…“You are an astonishing person”: Deutscher III, 120–21, 142.
Soviet government deprived Trotsky: Volkogonov, 350–51; Deutscher III, 142.
“Zina is terribly oppressed”: Volkogonov, 350.
“Mama is tied down”…“gentle, quiet little boy”: Van, 35.
“usual little cruelties”: Glotzer, 50.
“I expect a letter from you”: Van, 37.
turned on the gas taps: Deutscher III, 157–58; Volkogonov, 350–51.
left instructions: Zina’s note, TEP 17339.
“Poor, poor, poor child”: TEP 17340.
something terrible had happened…“Two deep wrinkles”: Van, 35.
open letter: Van, 35.
“I will go mad myself”: Alexandra Sokolovskaya to Trotsky, January 31, 1933, TEP 12608.
radical young activist…lovers had married: Deutscher I, 35–36, 47; Volkogonov, 8–16; Trotsky to Gérard Rosenthal, April 10, 1939, TEP 9828.
Trotsky’s response: Van, 40; published in part for the first time in Istoricheskii arkhiv, No. 1, 1992, 36.
“The two furrows”: Van, 41.
“they should be shot”: Van, 42.
Alexandra was arrested…They disappeared without a trace: fate of Trotsky’s family members: Volkogonov, 352–54, 366–67; Deutscher III, 228; Diary, 70, 160–61; on Trotsky’s brother, The New York Herald Tribune, February 26, 1938; “Genealogy of Trotsky’s Family,” Lubitz Trotskyana Net, http://www.trotskyana.net/Leon_Trotsky/Genealogy/genealogy.htm.
tremendous load: Deutscher III, 144–45.
despairing letters: Deutscher III, 145.
volatile and often contentious: Deutscher III, 145; Poretsky, 261.
“all Papa’s deficiencies”: quoted in Feferman, 310.
“trouble with father”: Deutscher III, 146.
Lyova remembered these Old Bolsheviks: Deutscher III, 281–83, 319–20.
he became hysterical: Legacy, 21–22.
“I became completely engrossed”: Writings, 10:174.
“a labyrinth of sheer madness”: Deutscher III, 319.
statement in a Paris newspaper: Writings, 10:387–88.
reproaches of his son for delays: Deutscher III, 116, 144–45, 295–96.
“I am a beast of burden”: Deutscher III, 310–11.
“a ridiculously transparent pose”: Van, 92.
Mark Zborowski: Volkogonov, 334–36; Deutscher III, 283–84; Broué, Léon Sedov, 126 et passim; Poretsky, 261–62.
“sullen, frowning face”: Van, 99–100.
waves lasting five or six days: Legacy, 22.
“Étienne can be trusted absolutely”: Volkogonov, 336.
“I never had any special suspicions”: Van, 99.
Zborowski kept Moscow thoroughly acquainted: Volkogonov papers, reel 4; Broué, Léon Sedov, 210–11.
“Stalin must be killed”: Zborowski reports, February 8, 1937, and February 11, 1938, Volkogonov papers, reel 2; Deadly Illusions, 282–84.
defection of Ignace Reiss: see his widow’s memoir, Poretsky, Our Own People.
upper reaches of the GPU: Deadly Illusions, 293–302.
“Long live Trotsky!”: Deutscher III, 315.
bullet-ridden body: Deutscher III, 315–16; Rosenthal, Avocat de Trotsky, 205–20; Broué, Léon Sedov, 184–93; Sneevliet to Trotsky, September 25 and 30, 1937, TEP 5204, 5206; Elsa Reiss [Poretsky] to Trotsky, September 30, 1937, TEP 4242.
“He is able, brave, and energetic”: Deutscher III, 318; Broué, Léon Sedov, 211.
“le dernier refuge”…“Ton Vieux”: Trotsky to Lyova, November 18, 1937, TEP 10237; Trotsky to Chers amis [Lelia Estrin and Mark Zborowski], November 18, 1937, TEP 7710.
alcoholic and depressed…“lost all faith”: Zborowski report, July 23, 1937, Volkogonov papers, reel 2.
he and his colleagues were stumped: Sudoplatov, 82–83.
“Both of them have aged terribly”: Hansen to Rose Karsner, February 17, 1938, TEP 11760.
small automatic pistol: Hansen, “With Trotsky in Coyoacan,” xxxiii.
“Slovenliness bordering on treachery”…“excuses and promises”: Trotsky to Lyova, February 15, 1937, TEP 10198.
“money to buy postage stamps”: Deutscher III, 297.
“outright crime”: Trotsky to Lyova, January 21, 1938, TEP 10244.
Lyova’s last letter: Deutscher III, 320.
brick, plaster, lime, and sand: Hansen to Reba Hansen, February 14 and 17, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:8.
The OM was seated at a small table: Hansen, “With Trotsky in Coyoacan,” xxxiii.
his affecting tribute: Writings, 10:166–79.
rejoined the rest of the household: Hansen to Reba Hansen, May 23, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:11.
“our beloved daughter”: Trotsky to Jeanne Martin, March 10, 1938, Writings, 10:257–58.
testament he produced in great haste: Camille [Rudolf Klement] to Trotsky, February 18, 1938, TEP 2035; Alfred Rosmer to Trotsky, February 16, 1938, TEP 4487.
Jeanne abducted Seva: Broué, 876–77; Deutscher III, 326–28.
“his banging window shattering glass”: “Joe’s notes on Trotsky,” Hansen papers, 40:7.
“You are with my enemies”: Van, 120–21.
take Lyova’s place: Deutscher III, 329–30.
penetrate Trotsky’s household: Volkogonov, 445.
Chapter Six: Prisoners and Provocateurs
twenty trained men: Van, 18–19. On Blumkin, see Legacy, 111; Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story (HarperPerennial, 1991), 155; Kolpakidi, 119; Andrew & Mitrokhin, 40; Poretsky, 146–47.
“hire an assassin for a few dollars”: Lyova to Trotsky and Natalia, December 7, 1936, TEP 4863.
“question of life and death”…“they use in American banks”: Lyova to Trotsky [January 1937], TEP 4870.
authorized selected local Trotskyists: Van, 105, 133; Broué, 848.
Bernard Wolfe: Alan Wald, “Bernard Wolfe (1915–1985),” Glotzer papers, box 40.
disassembling and then reassembling the Luger: Bernard Wolfe, Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer (Doubleday & Company, 1972), 33–35.
events in Spain: Craig II, 639–45; Antony Beevor, The Spanish Civil War (Peter Bedrick Books, 1983).
Stalin had a complicated political agenda: Kolpakidi, 130–41; Andy Durgan, The Spanish Civil War (Palgrave, 2007), 66–70, 91–92.
May Days, Barcelona: Beevor, 187–91; Durgan, 92–97.
Erwin Wolf: Trotsky to George Novack and Felix Morrow, September 25, 1937, TEP 9431; Writings, 9:508–12.
George Mink: Mink profile in Solow papers, box 11, “Spies” FBI, 2:33–34; Vernon L. Pedersen, “George Mink, the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and the Comintern in America,” Labor History, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2000; Kern, 57; Venona Secrets, 106–10; Broué, 926; Whittaker Chambers, Witness (Random House, 1952), 302–3; Hansen to Reba Hansen, May 4, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:11.
Blue House was on high alert: Hansen to James Cannon, October 26, 1937, TC 23:3; Trotsky to Jack Weber, December 1, 1937, TEP 10800; Harry Milton to Trotsky, October 11, 1937, TEP 3161.
GPU defector Ignace Reiss: [Jan Frankel] to Friend, October 25, 1937, TC 23:3. Harry Milton: Trotsky to James Cannon, October 3, 1937, TEP 7510; Albert Glotzer to Trotsky, November 3, 1937, Glotzer papers, box 3. “Gosh! Are you hit?” George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (Beacon Press, 1955), 185–86.
organizing a hunger strike: Milton to Martin Abern, May 19 and May 21, 1937, TEP 15057, 15058.
generous contribution to the legend: Time, May 2, 1938.
“gangsterist activity”: Trotsky to Milton, November 6, 1937, Glotzer papers, box 2.
preempted Milton’s appointment: Jan Frankel to Natalia Trotsky, November 15, 1937, TC 26:14; also James Cannon to Trotsky, November 10, 1937
, TEP 489; Trotsky to Cannon, November 14, 1937, TEP 7514; Hansen to Cannon, November 14, 1937, TC 23:3; Jack Weber to Hansen, November 28, 1937, TEP 7166.
“the O.M. is extremely restive”: Harold Isaacs to Comrades, July 3, 1937, Hansen papers 69:64.
“Milton, Stone matter”: Trotsky to Jack Weber, December 1, 1937, TEP 10800.
the new man be an experienced driver: Jan Frankel to Harold Isaacs, June 30, 1937, attached to Isaacs to Comrades, July 3, 1937, Hansen papers, 69:64.
“Fifty million Americans drive autos”: Cannon to Bernard Wolfe, August 11, 1937, TEP 6237.
Cannon failed to understand: Trotsky to Sara Weber, August 17, 1937, TEP 10822.
Hansen was born in the farming town: Hansen bio online on Lubitz Trotskyana Net, http://www.trotskyana.net/Trotskyists/Bio-Bibliographies/bio-bibliographies.html; Sara Weber to Trotsky, August 25, 1937, TEP 5887.
The Dodge got a hearty reception: Hansen to Cannon, September 30, 1937, TC 23:3; Hansen, “With Trotsky in Coyoacan,” viii-ix.
the Old Man could be very difficult: Hansen to Flo, October 18, 1937, Hansen papers, 5:26.
towering historical figure…“friendly terms with a volcano”: Hansen to Sara and Jack Weber, October 21, 1937, TEP 12490.
Fernández family in the suburb of Tacuba…“He will never learn!”: Van, 116.
“gave me hell”…“The driver is good”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, October 11, 1937, Hansen papers, 18:5.
“hairskin shaves from death”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, June 27, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:12.
“She kept crying as we drove along”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, September 16, 1940, Hansen papers, 19:4.
Trotsky behaved like a revisionist: Hansen to Reba Hansen, October 1, 1937, Hansen papers, 18:4.
“I never heard him make a remark about the food”: Van, 16.
“To dress up, to eat”: Van, 61.
two types of meals…“lost somewhere in the clouds”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, May 23, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:11.
“coldness, silence, oppression”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, November 8, 1937, Hansen papers, 18:5.
visit to the doctor: Hansen to Reba Hansen, January 21, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:7.
Trotsky’s friendly jesting: Van, 17; Hansen to Reba Hansen, January 21, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:7.
“no laughter but of mockery”: Eastman, Heroes, 249.
“a good deal like a prison”: Hansen to Reba, January 21, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:7.
Natalia, who was high-strung: Hansen to Reba Hansen, February 6, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:8.
warmer climes of her native Tampico: Hansen to Reba Hansen, December 8, 1937, Hansen papers, 18:6.
incident involved Van’s wife: Van, 116–17; Hansen to Reba Hansen, December 8, 1937, Hansen papers, 18:6; Feferman, 151–53.
Fernández family in Tacuba…“Damn, can they dance”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, December 13, 1937; and May 17 and June 12, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:6, 18:11, 18:12.
“heavy, powerful, accurate, sure action”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, October 13, 1937, Hansen papers, 18:4.
barking and howling of the neighborhood dogs: Hansen to Reba Hansen, March 2, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:9.
recruitment of a full-time guard: Van to Jan Frankel, February 4, 1938, TC 23:4; Hansen to Cannon, February 5, 1938 (twice), TC 23:4; Rose Karsner to Hansen, February 8, 1938, TEP 6653; Cannon to Hansen, February 14, 1938, TEP 6211; Van to Jan Frankel, February 16, 1938, TC 23:4.
authorized the hiring of the new guard: Van to Jan Frankel, February 22, 1938, TC 23:4.
garrison of three comrades: Jan Frankel to Van, February 22, 1938, TC 23:4.
gas masks: Van to Jan Frankel, February 22, 1938, TC 23:4.
The “Trial of the 21”: Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution, 372–81; Deutscher III, 332–33; Jean-Jacques Marie, Trotsky: Révolutionnaire sans frontières (Payot & Rivages, 2006), 506–8, 549.
war room: Hansen to Reba Hansen, March 2, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:9.
“It all seems like a delirious dream”: Writings, 10:201.
Dewey himself now denounced: The New York Times, March 4, 1938.
“a too easy victory to the G.P.U.”: Trotsky to Margaret de Silver, March 31, 1938, TEP 7673.
Hank Stone, the first chief of the guard: “Henry Malter dit Hank Stone (1908–1986),” Cahiers Léon Trotsky, No. 28, December 1986; Cannon to Trotsky, November 10, 1937, TEP 489; Jan Frankel to Natalia, November 15, 1937, TC 26:14.
hammer and nails: Stone to Jan Frankel, April 7 and April 16, 1938, TC 23:5.
“cobwebs inside the barrel”…“buying bananas”: Stone to Jan Frankel, April 7, 1938, TC 23:5.
$100 per month: Stone to Jan Frankel, May 17, 1938, TC 23:5.
Minneapolis became a Trotskyist stronghold: Farrell Dobbs, Teamster Rebellion (Monad Press, 1972); Charles Rumford Walker, American City: A Rank-and-File History (Farrar & Rinehart, 1937).
“big meaty fellow”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, May 15, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:11.
absence of six teeth: Hansen to Reba Hansen, March 30, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:9.
first indication of trouble: Stone to Jan Frankel, March 16, 1938, TC 23:5.
“women’s work”…“go jump in a lake”: Stone to Jan Frankel, April 8, 1938, TC 23:5.
bread without butter: Hansen to Rose Karsner, April 4, 1938, TEP 11764.
“potatoes and gravy”: Hansen to Reba Hansen, May 23, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:11.
Edith offered to cook: Hansen to Reba Hansen, April 21 and 22, 1938, Hansen papers 18:10; Stone to Jan Frankel, May 17 and May 21, 1938, TC 23:5.
“The Mink”: Time, May 2, 1938. Mink’s photo: Van to Pearl Kluger, April 21, 1938, TC 23:5.
“une maison de bourgeois”: Van to Jan Frankel, May 30, 1938, TC 23:5.
Trotsky would erupt: Van to Jan Frankel, May 2, 1938, TC 23:5.
Hank’s demoralization was now complete: Stone to Jan Frankel, May 17, 1938, TC 23:5.
the goodbye was sad…Chris Moustakis: Hansen to Reba Hansen, June 12, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:12.
elaborate alarm system: Stone to Jan Frankel, May 31, 1938, TC 23:5.
effect of the floodlights: Hansen to Reba Hansen, May 11, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:11.
two cedars and a pine: Hansen to Reba Hansen, February 6, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:8.
more permanent structure made of bricks: Hansen to Reba Hansen, May 11, 1938, Hansen papers, 18:11.
“getting fed up with the entire matter”: Sara Weber to Rose Karsner, August 8, 1938, TC 23:6.
Rudolf Klement: Deutscher III, 330–31; Sara Weber to John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler], July 17, 1938, TEP 12568; Hansen to Rose Karsner, July 21, 1938, TC 23:5; Writings, 11:24–25, 137.
theft of Trotsky’s archives: Broué, Léon Sedov, 172–74; Deutscher III, 283–85.
a tense meeting to sort the matter out: Volkogonov, 426; Poretsky, 250–54.
“I am sending you 103 letters”: Dmitri Volkogonov, Trotskii: Politicheskii portret, Vol. 2 (Novosti, 1994), 274–75.
Zborowski regularly supplied Moscow: Volkogonov, 358–61, 370–73, 378–80; Volkogonov papers, reel 2; Broué, Léon Sedov, 210–11.
“we have dreamed about getting hold of it”: Volkogonov, 448.
September 6 in Reims, France: Étienne and Paulsen to International Secretariat, February 22, 1938, TEP 15642.
Trotsky was incensed at Sneevliet: Trotsky to International Secretariat, September 30, 1937, TEP 8052; Trotsky to Comrades, September 30, 1937, TC 12:18; Trotsky to Elsa Reiss [Poretsky], October 13, 1937, TEP 9783; Trotsky to Sneevliet, December 2, 1937, TEP 10422; Writings, 9:448–51, 459–60, 492–95; 10:146–47, 150–52.
staff member at the Soviet embassy: Walter Krivitsky, In Stalin’s Secret Service, 2nd ed. (Harper & Brothers, 1939), 253.
Sneevliet’s misgivings came to focus on Zborowski: Deutscher III, 316.
Walter Krivitsky: Kern, 147 et passim; Poretsky, 220 et passim.
“There is a dangerous agent in your party”: Poretsk
y, 252–53.
Krivitsky was wary of the Trotskyists: Deutscher III, 317.
Trotsky, the man, was a formidable figure: Jan Frankel to Trotsky, July 12, 1939, TEP 1279.
Père Lachaise cemetery: Kern, 155–56.
He used his position as “Sonny’s” successor: Étienne and Paulsen to International Secretariat, February 22 and June 24, 1938, TEP 15642, 15643; Étienne and Paulsen to Trotsky, November 11, 1937, TEP 879; Deutscher III, 329–31.
outraged at the “slanderer”: Deutscher III, 329; Trotsky to International Secretariat, March 12, 1938, TEP 8058.
most devoted comrade: Étienne to Natalia [February 1938], TEP 13396.
“This is to your credit”: Volkogonov, 445.
“to get to the OLD MAN”: Volkogonov, 444; Volkogonov, Trotskii, 307.
his letter to Van: Marie, Trotsky, 503.
Trotsky received a letter: TEP 2321, TC 13:40.
helped confirm Sneevliet in his suspicion: Etienne and Paulsen to Trotsky, November 11, 1937, TEP, 879; Deutscher III, 330–31.
suspicions about Serge: Elsa Reiss [Poretsky] to Trotsky, November 7, 1938, TEP 4245.
“The sooner, the more decisively”: Trotsky to Dear Friends, December 2, 1938, TEP 7729.
a letter arrived at the Blue House: TEP 6137; TC 13:63; Deutscher III, 331–32.
“extremely confidential, extremely important”: TEP 8105; TC 12:25.
Alexander Orlov: Deadly Illusions; on the NKVD purges in Spain: Andrew & Mitrokhin, 73; Kolpakidi, 138; Deadly Illusions, 268, 279–80, 287–89; Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story, 158–60.
The fatal summons: Deadly Illusions, 301.
listed all the secrets he could reveal: Deadly Illusions, 308–12, 430.
Trotsky published the ad: Socialist Appeal, January 14 and February 4, 1939.
mysterious correspondent was Krivitsky: Trotsky to Vanzler [John G. Wright], January 21, 1939, TEP 10927.
Cannon’s secretary was an informant for the GPU: Venona, 262–63.
“Long live Trotsky!”: Legacy, 112.
Ramón Mercader: Kolpakidi, 156–57.
Chapter Seven: Fellow Travelers
“Looking as mischievous as an art student”: Van, 132.
Breton was the leader of Surrealism: Polizzotti, Revolution of the Mind.
published a laudatory review…Planet without a Visa: Polizzotti, 245–47, 399–400; Broué, 898.
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