. TROTSKI (Lev Davidovitch Bronstein, known as Leon). Histor - Lot 108

. TROTSKI (Lev Davidovitch Bronstein, known as Leon). History of the Russian Revolution. Paris, Les Éditions Rieder, 1933-1934. 4 volumes. I: 319-(5 including the first and last 2 blank). II: 347-(5 including first and last 2 blank). III: 480-(4 including last 2 blank). IV: 572-(4 of which the last 2 are blank) pp. Paperback, in modern hardback folder and slipcase (A. Devauchelle). FIRST EDITION OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION, by Maurice Donzel dit Maurice Parijanine, of which only 50 first copies were printed on large paper. One of the volumes here comes from the press office. SIGNED AUTOGRAPH ENVOILED: "Sincerely to Pierre Ogouz, Leon Trotsky. Coyoacán, March 19, 1937." Journalist and film critic, Pierre Ogouz was the editorial secretary of the periodical Marianne. The son of a Jewish woman from Vilnius, he was deported with her to the Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen at the end of the Second World War. TROTSKY IN EXILE IN MEXICO. Excluded from the Political Bureau by Stalin in October 1926, Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union in February 1929, and led a wandering life, successively in Turkey, Denmark, Paris (notably from July 1933 to June 1935), Norway, then Mexico, where he arrived in July 1937. He settled in the Coyoacán district, first in Diego Ribera and Frida Kahlo's house, then in an adjacent street. It was here, in August 1940, that he fell victim to an assassination, most probably ordered by Russia. Attached is a photographic portrait of Trotsky published at the time by Rieder. Provenance: Pierre Ogouz (handwritten bookplate dated 1934).