Sedov (Trotsky) Lev Lvovich

Years of life: 1906-1938
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Born in 1906; member of the RKSM since 1919; studied at the Moscow Higher Technical School. From the mid-1920s belonged to the Left Opposition, for which he was expelled from the Komsomol in 1928. Followed his father into exile in Alma-Ata, accompanied him during his expulsion abroad. From 1929, first in Berlin, then in Paris, he was the editor and publisher of the Bulletin of the Opposition. The Second Moscow Trial in January 1937 ruled that Trotsky and Sedov were subject to immediate arrest if they were found on the territory of the USSR. He was one of the main targets of the Paris residency of the NKVD. He died after an operation for appendicitis in a Russian clinic in Paris on 16 February 1938.

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