LEON TROTSKY NOTEBOOKS
MIA: History: ETOL: Newspapers/Journals
Editorial. . . . . . . 3
Boris Efimov – The Good Chemist. . . . . . . 5
40th Anniversary of the founding conference of the IV Internationale. . . . . . . 7
I. Second international conference of the IV Internationale (Extract from the circular summoning to the S.I. dated 1 April 1938). . . . . . . 9
II. International Conference (Extract from the circular for the S.I. dated 11 June 1938). . . . . . . 13
III. Founding conference of the IV Internationale. Official report of the established conference according to correspondence notes by an American and a French delegate. . . . . . . 17
Boris Efimov – He is overworked. . . . . . . 59
Pierre Broué – Some close collaborators of Trotsky. . . . . . . 61
Jan van Heijenoort – Collected intentions of Rodolphe Prager. . . . . . . 87
Michel Kerhnon – Éssenine and Trotsky. . . . . . . 95
George Breitman – When Hitler’s diary inscribed a letter by Trotsky. . . . . . . 101
Leon Trotsky – On the philosophy of the subhuman. . . . . . . 105
Michel Dreyfus and Jean-François Godchau – Chronicle of books. . . . . . . 121
Evelyn Reed . . . . . . . 3
Raya Dunayevskaya – Trotsky the man . . . . . . . 5
Joseph Hansen . . . . . . . 21
Joseph Hansen – With Trotsky until the last moment . . . . . . . 25
Clare Sheridan – The bust of Leon Trotsky – a presentation by Pierre Frank . . . . . . . 53
George Breitman – The discussion around the Ludlow amendment . . . . . . . 65
Pierre Naville – On the assassination of Rudolf Klement – with two unpublished letters by Leon Trotsky . . . . . . . 73
Leon Trotsky – Two unpublished letters concerning the Communist Party S.F.I.C to Lenin and Zinoviev . . . . . . . 79
Letter to Lenin (September 1921) . . . . . . . 81
Letter to Zinoviev (November 1922) . . . . . . . 85
Michel Kehrnon – Concerning one of Deutscher’s sources . . . . . . . 89
Readers’ Letters – Letters from Pierre Frank and Daniel Guérin . . . . . . . 99
Michel Dreyfus and Jean- François Godschau – Chronology of recent publications . . . . . . . 103
The abundance of subjects does not allow us to publish all of the previously announced material, which will appear in later issues.
Pierre Broué – Introduction . . . . . . . 5
Part One: Counter-Trial
G.R. – A Doctoral Thesis: Counter-Trial by Thomas R. Poole . . . . . . . Page 17
Biography – John Dewey
Document No. 1 – Report to its Members on the Work of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky . . . . . . 33
Alan Wald – The Dewey Commission: Forty Years After. . . . . . . 43
Document No. 2 – Summary of the Conclusions of the Dewey Commission. . . . . . . 57
Gérard Roche – Defense and Counter-Inquiry in France
Document No. 3 – Appeal to Humanity.. . . . . . . 99
Document No. 4 – Letters from L. Sedov to M. Martinet. . . . . . . 101
Document No. 5 – Letter from M. Martinet to L. Trotsky. . . . . . . 105
Document No. 6 – Letter from P. Naville to L. Trotsky. . . . . . . 107
David Vogelsanger – Attempt at a Counter-Trial at Basel (with two unpublished letters of Leon Trotsky in the text). . . . . . . 109
Part Two : Frame-up Trials
René Revol – The Moscow Trial in Spain. . . . . . . 121
Document No. 7 – J. A., The Leon Narvitch Affair. . . . . . . 133
Biography – Freund, alias Moulin. . . . . . . 135
Biography – Kurt Landau. . . . . . . 136
Biography – Rosalio Negrete. . . . . . . 137
Biography – Andreu Nin. . . . . . . 138
Biography – Goffredo Rosini. . . . . . . 139
Pierre Broué – A Frame-up Indictment in Prague: The Grylewicz Affair. . . . . . . 141
Document No. 8 – A. Grylewicz, The Frame-up Indictment for Spying. . . . . . . 147
Pierre Broué – Trial of Americans in Moscow or Moscow Trial in New York? The Robinson-
Rubens Affair. . . . . . . 151
Biography – Vittorio Vidali. . . . . . . 175
Biography – Tina Modotti. . . . . . . 177
Biography – George Mink. . . . . . . 179
Document No. 9 – Declaration of J.P. Cannon on the Robinson Affair . . . . . . 180
Document No. 10 – Junius (H. Solow), The Real Scheme Behind the Rubens Affair is Becoming Clearer . . . . . . 183
Biography – Camillo Berneri . . . . . . 186
Biography – Carlo Tresca . . . . . . 187
Document No. 11 – C. Tresca, In Denouncing the Dictatorships Without Fear or Respite, We Will Fulfill Our Duty . . . . . . 189
Document No. 12 – C. Tresca, Where is Juliet Stuart Poyntz? . . . . . . 196
Document No. 13 – C. Tresca, Why I Went Before the Federal Grand Jury . . . . . . 199
Part Three: The Machinery of Lies
Jean-Paul Joubert – When L’Humanité Covered the Tracks of the Killers . . . . . . 203
Document No. 14 – Eight Traitors to the Soviet Fatherland Before the Supreme Court (L’Humanité) . . . . . . 229
Document No. 15 – Declaration of Sneevliet to the Swiss Police . . . . . . 230
Document No. 16 – Trotskyism in the Service of Hitler (G. Soria, L’Humanité, June 20, 1937) . . . . . . 232
Document No. 17 – The Trotskyist Traitors Exposed in Barcelona (G. Soria, L’Humanité, October 25, 1937) . . . . . . 234
Chronology . . . . . . 237
Institut Léon Trotsky – Some Research Projects for the Historians of the P.C.F. . . . . . . 241
Contributors to this Special Issue . . . . . . 243