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TROTSKY, Leon (Lev Davydovich Bronstein, 1879-1940). Autograph letter signed to 'Monsieur le Secrtaire du Syndicat de la Presse trangre Paris!', Paris, 23 May 1915, in French, one page, 4to, on a bifolium.
Trotsky introduces himself as the accredited correspondent of the journal Kievskaya mysl' (Kievian Thought), and proposes himself for membership of the Syndicate of Foreign Press in Paris.
Trotsky fled Austria for Switzerland immediately after the outbreak of war; Kievskaya mysl', the radical journal for which Trotsky had already reported from the Balkan Wars, and which was to remain an important source of income during the years before the revolution, suggested he move to Paris to observe the war. Whilst tempering his views for his accredited journal, which was in favour of a successful prosecution of the war, Trotsky was writing more explicitly anti-war articles for the considerably more radical Nashe slovo. When these were found in the possession of Russian troops who mutinied at Marseille in 1916, Trotsky was expelled from the country.
Trotsky introduces himself as the accredited correspondent of the journal Kievskaya mysl' (Kievian Thought), and proposes himself for membership of the Syndicate of Foreign Press in Paris.
Trotsky fled Austria for Switzerland immediately after the outbreak of war; Kievskaya mysl', the radical journal for which Trotsky had already reported from the Balkan Wars, and which was to remain an important source of income during the years before the revolution, suggested he move to Paris to observe the war. Whilst tempering his views for his accredited journal, which was in favour of a successful prosecution of the war, Trotsky was writing more explicitly anti-war articles for the considerably more radical Nashe slovo. When these were found in the possession of Russian troops who mutinied at Marseille in 1916, Trotsky was expelled from the country.