LEON TROTSKY FBI FILES

900 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and archived on CD-ROM covering mostly the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico by an assassin wielding a pick-axe. Files contain various information, memos, miscellany, and articles concerning events surrounding Trotsky's assassination. Trotsky was a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution. After Joseph Stalin won the struggle for power following Vladimir Lenin's death, Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and exiled in 1929. In exile, Trotsky was the leader of anti-Stalinist opposition.