Leon Trotsky's Adventure in American Radical Politics. 1935–1937

In: International review of social history, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 1-46

Abstract

On 24 January 1936 Rose Karsner of New York City received a cablegram from Norway: " Personally in Favour of Entry–leo." The sender of the cablegram was the exiled Bolshevik leader, Leon Trotsky, and the recipient was the wife of the most important "Trotskyist" leader in the United States, James Cannon. The Russian revolutionary thus gave his blessing to a new manoeuvre by which the American Trotskyists were to enter the Socialist Party of America for certain well-defined objectives.