Историк Исаак Моисеевич Троцкий (1903–1937)
Historian Isaac Moiseevich Trotskiy (1903–1937)

Summary/Abstract: This article is the first scientific biography of Professor Isaac Trotsky - employee of Historical archaeographic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad University. There are new facts about his childhood and youth years, studies in the early 1920s in the Odessa humanitarian and public Institute and Odessa Archaeological Institute, as well as in Petrograd University, History Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences, which he graduated in 1924. Trotsky's scholar papers were devoted to the history of Ancient Russia and to the movement of the Decembrists. He was widely known in Soviet historiography as the publisher of sources on the history of Russian social thought in the late 18th - early 19th centuries. Isaac Trotsky was arrested 1936, June 2. Using data from the archives of the Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, the author shows that the blame was put Isaac Trotsky his alleged involvement in certain illegal Trotsky-Zinoviev organization that committed the murder Secretary of the Central Committee and the Leningrad All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Sergei Kirov of the year 1934, December 1st, and produced a number of terrorist acts against the leaders of the Party and the Soviet state. Under the pressure I. M. Trotsky was forced to admit the fact of participation in the underground anti-Soviet organization, which he was assertedly involved by the director of the Institute of History and archaeographic Semen Tomsinsky. However, Trotsky insisted that he had never even suspected that Tomsinsky had been a trotskyist and had prepared an act of terrorism. 23.12.1936, the visiting session of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court sentenced him to 10 years of correctional labour work and then he was transferred to the Solovki camp. Trotsky was charged counter-revolutionary activities in the camp and 10.10.1937 special NKVD troika sentenced him, together with a large group of other prisoners to death. 04.11.1937 sentence was carried out.

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