100 years ago, Leon Trotsky (real name Lev Davidovich Bronstein) entered the Russian Foreign Office as if he owned the place. He got short shrift from the “typewriter girls” who assailed him “about his origin”.


100 years ago, Leon Trotsky (real name Lev Davidovich Bronstein) entered the Russian Foreign Office as if he owned the place. He got short shrift from the “typewriter girls” who assailed him “about his origin”.

