Leon Lvovich Sedov (Russian: Лев Львович Седов; February 1906 - February 16, 1938) was the son of the Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova. Leon Sedov was born when his father was in prison facing life sentence for having led the first Soviet in the revolution of 1905. He lived separately from his parents after the 1917 Revolution in order not to be seen as privileged. He later supported his father in the struggle against Josef Stalin and became a leader of the Trotskyist movement in his own right. 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Leon Trotsky Leon Davidovich Trotsky â–¶(?) (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij and Trotzky ) (October 26 (O.S.) = November 7 (N.S.), 1879 – August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ... Natalia Sedova Natalia Sedova (1882-1962) is best known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary. ... A soviet (Russian: сове́т) originally was a workers local council in late Imperial Russia. ... The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a country-wide spasm of both anti-government and undirected violence. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... Joseph Stalin Iosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 18791 – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a political leader in the Soviet Union. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ...

Sedov accompanied his father into exile in 1928, and then moved to Berlin and later Paris where he was an important functionary for the Trotskyist movement. He died in mysterious circumstances, most probably murdered by agents of Stalin, while in hospital. In 1956, a Stalinist agent who had posed as Sedov’s comrade and friend testified in a United States court that he had reported to the GPU as soon as Sedov had entered the hospital under a secret name. 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ... Comrade is a term meaning friend, colleague, or ally. ... GPU can stand for: Graphics processing unit, a special microprocessor used in computer graphics hardware The State Political Directorate (Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie), the name of the secret police in the USSR in one of the stages of its development Global Processing Unit, a generic name for a distributed computing project...

Leon Sedov’s major political work is The Red Book on the Moscow Trials (1936).

External links

• The Red Book on the Moscow Trail
• Leon Sedov obituary by Victor Serge