Lev Sedov

Lew Lvovitch Sedov (Russian Лев Львович Седов, scientific transliteration Lev L' vovič Sedov, German and Leon Sedov; engl and French also Leon Sedov, . * February 24, 1906, † February 16, 1938 in Paris) was the eldest son by Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova and a political companion of his father.

Life

Sedov was his father politically very close and tried, and to defend it with other like-minded people against the accusations and lies of Stalin, for example, in the Moscow Trials.

Politically active, he was after Lenin's death in 1924, when the hunt began against Trotsky and the Left Opposition was founded. He followed his father - his own family leaving - 1928 to exile in Alma -Ata, and from there a year later on the Turkish island Prinkipo in Istanbul.

From February 1931 he lived in Berlin, where he (now Technical University of Berlin ) studied at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin -Charlottenburg and edited the Bulletin of the Russian opposition. In the spring of 1933 Sedov fled from the Nazis to Paris. There he lived - constantly shadowed by the NKVD - until his death on February 16, 1938 He died unexpectedly after successful completion of the appendectomy, . whether he was poisoned by Soviet agents, is unclear.

Publications

• Red Book on the Moscow trial. Documents. Editions de Lee, Antwerp in 1936; Reprint: isp -Verlag, Frankfurt, 1988, ISBN 3-88332-142-7
• Various articles in the Bulletin of the Opposition
• An article in the book The Stalin School of Falsification by Leon Trotsky