Trotsky will go down to posterity as a great man, one of the few men who ever wrote history as brilliantly as he made it ... "Arrogance," she said, "would be a better word than pride. Leon Davidovich ...
History may not like him but history cannot ... bigwigs came when he attended a Party powwow in Vienna. Leon Trotsky noticed him in passing; Nikolai Lenin, who had first met him in 1905 in Finland ...