Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, was still asleep when Lev
Davidovich Bronstein, alias Trotsky, plunked himself down on his
doorstep.
It was October 1902; the place, London; the hour, dawn. Both men
were in exile; both were had escaped from the czar's prisons in and
out of Siberia; both were totally immersed in and dedicated to the
Marxist revolutionary movement, of which Lenin, at 32, was the
acknowledged head. His current command post was London. A number of
his compatriot ...
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