Alexander H. Buchman photographs of Leon Trotsky and others, 1982.

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Alexander H. Buchman photographs of Leon Trotsky and others, 1982.

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Contains 102 black-and-white photographs of Leon Trotsky, Charles Cornell, Farrell Dobbs, Joseph Hansen, Alfred Rosmer, Diego Rivera, Otto R̈̈ühle, Otto Schü̈ssler, Natalia Sedova, Esteban Volkov and others. Photographs were selected from about 700 negatives taken from about Nov. 1939 to about mid-Apr. 1940, and printed in 1982. The numbers on the reverse of the prints correspond to negative numbers from which the enlargements were made. Dates are approximate.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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Rühle, Otto, 1874-1943

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Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957

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Mexican painter and muralist. From the description of Declaration in connection with a watercolor and a drawing sold to Mrs. Schwartz, 1934 March 7, Mexico City. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81939422 Diego Rivera, a renowned Mexican mural painter, was commissioned by Mrs. Samuel Strong in 1935 to paint a portrait of her friend, Kathleen Burke, of Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Receipt from Diego Rivera, 1935 Mar. 5. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Trotsky family

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Cornell, Charles Olney, 1911-1989

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Charles Olney Cornell (1911 – 1989) was an American Communist. Cornell was born on March 14, 1911, in Cochise, Arizona. While a teacher in San Francisco in the 1930s, he became active in the American Trotskyist movement and joined the newly founded Socialist Workers Party in 1938. The SWP proposed that Charles Cornell go to Coyoacán, Mexico, where Leon Trotsky was living in exile to work as one of his bodyguards. Cornell served on Trotsky’s staff from June 1939 to August 1940. On May 24...

Schü̈ssler, Otto, 1905-1982

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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 ...

Volkov, Esteban

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Buchman, Alexander H., 1911-2003.

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Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet leader, and Communist theorist. Alexander H. Buchman was an American engineer, Communist sympathizer, and amateur photographer. In 1939-1940, he spent five months at Trotsky's villa in Coyoacán, Mexico, serving as one of Trotsky's guards and also exhaustively documenting the lives of Trotsky and his family and friends. From the description of Alexander H. Buchman photographs of Leon Trotsky and others, 1982. (Harvard University). Worl...

Rosmer, Alfred.

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Dobbs, Farrell, 1907-1983

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Farrell Dobbs (July 25, 1907 – October 31, 1983) was an American Trotskyist, trade unionist, politician, and historian. Dobbs was born in Queen City, Missouri, where his father was a worker in a coal company garage. The family moved to Minneapolis, and he graduated from North High School in 1925. In 1926, he left for North Dakota to find work, but returned the following fall. At this point, young Farrell Dobbs was a Republican, and supported Herbert Hoover for president in 1928. However, h...

Trot︠s︡kai︠a︡, Natalii︠a︡ Ivanovna, 1882-1962.

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Hansen, Joseph

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American Trotskyist leader; secretary to Leon Trotsky, 1937-1940; member, National Committee, Socialist Workers Party, 1940-1975; fraternal member, United Secretariat of the Fourth International, 1963-1979; editor, Intercontinental Press, 1963-1979. From the description of Joseph Hansen papers, 1887-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122354560 ...