Don't forget that Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the revolution, lived in New York for a couple months in 1917. Trotsky was born in Yankova, Ukraine, in 1897 and after being expelled from France and Spain he ended up in New York in January 1917. Together with his wife and two sons, he lived at 1522 Vyse Avenue in the Bronx.
Trotsky was active in the New York Russian expatriate community, and particularly in the communist movement. He wrote for the newspaper Novyi Mir (The New World), then based at 77 St. Mark's Place in the East Village, and also lectured at the East Village's Russian Free University on East Seventh Street.
He left New York March 1917 to return to Russia to join the other leaders of the revolution. At the time, the Bronx Home News ran the headline "Bronx Man Leads Russian Revolution."
Trotsy is remembered in the city at Cafe Trotsky (192 Orchard at Houston), a Viennese coffee house on the Lower East Side.
Read Leon Trotsky's My Life, chapter 22, "New York."
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"Cafe Trotsky"?!?!
Posted by: e | November 07, 2005 at 06:17 PM
ewk....I can't get away from this man.
Posted by: sp | November 07, 2005 at 06:40 PM
Those slavs should employ someone with fact-checking abilities; heck, just an ability to click (once) to Wiki and find out the birthdate of their idol. It's 1879, dummies, not 1897, or he'd had to be a wonderkind to lecture in university and write in newspapers being a 20 y.o. (and father 2 sons in a meanwhile)
That's how rumors about Jewish superiority start!
Posted by: Tatyana | November 08, 2005 at 10:53 AM