organized the Bolshevik October Revolution, defeated by Stalin in their struggle for control of the government, banished and later assassinated in Mexico. Rare A.D.S. "Trotsky" on official military letterhead as People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs, 1p. 8vo., Moscow, Apr. 7 [n.y..], in full: "The bearer of this, Sergei Alexandrovich Ivanov, 12 years old, is attached to the train of Narkomvoen [People's Military Commission]". Mounting strip at left margin light soiling, overall very good. During the Russian Civil War, Trotsky appropriated the private train of Tsar Nicholas II for the use of himself and his staff.