Henry Schnautz collection on Leon Trotsky

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Henry Schnautz collection on Leon Trotsky

1940

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11641681

Houghton Library

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Schnautz, Henry, 1910-2010

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Henry Schnautz (1910-) was very interested in the Apache Tribe of south central New Mexico. He painted a series of well-known portraits of Apache leaders and tribal members. Henry Schnautz was born in 1910 in Evansville, Indiana, to August Schnautz and Ann Ferstel Schnautz. He was involved with the American Communist and American Socialist parties in the 1930’s. Schnautz was also a body guard to Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia in Coyoacan, Mexico, a suburb of Mexico ...

Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940

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Lev Davidovich Bronstein[a] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Ukrainian revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Trotskyism. Born to a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family in Yanovka (now Bereslavka), Trotsky embraced Marxism after moving to Nikolayev in 1896. In 1898, he was arrested for revolutionary activities and subsequently exiled to Siberia. He escaped from ...