Richard to Minna Wagner. Letters to his first wife

On his death bed, Vladimir Lenin wrote a letter to the Congress characterizing Trotsky БЂњas the most capable member of the Central Committee, and one of two outstanding leaders.БЂ«After LeninБЂ™s death in January 1924, Trotsky ended up politically isolated among the highest Party and government leaders of the USSR. On January 26, 1925, he was removed from his post as chairman of the Revolutionary War Council and appointed member of the Presidium of the All-Union Council of the National Economy (VSNKh), the central state industrial agency. In 1927, he was expelled from the AUCP(b). In January 1928, he was exiled to Almaty, in Kazakhstan, and was deported from the USSR early in 1929 along with his family. He lived as an ц©migrц© in Turkey, France, Norway, and Mexico. In 1938, he united a group of his supporters throughout the world to form the so-called Fourth International. He was sentenced to death in absentia in the USSR, and his first wife and youngest son Sergey Sedov were shot in the Soviet Union in 1937 ...»