Leon Sedov
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Leon Lvovich Sedov (Russian: Лев Львович Седов; February 1906 - February 16, 1938) was the son of the Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova. Leon Sedov was born when his father was in prison facing life sentence for having led the first Soviet in the Revolution of 1905.
He lived separately from his parents after the October Revolution in order not to be seen as privileged. He later supported his father in the struggle against Josef Stalin and became a leader of the Trotskyist movement in his own right.
Sedov accompanied his father into exile in 1928, and then moved to Berlin and later Paris where he was an important functionary for the Trotskyist movement. He died in mysterious circumstances, most probably murdered by agents of Stalin, while in hospital. In 1956, a Stalinist agent, Mark Zborowski, who had posed as Sedov’s comrade and friend testified in a United States court that he had reported to the GPU as soon as Sedov had entered the hospital under a secret name.
Leon Sedov’s major political work is The Red Book on the Moscow Trials (1936).
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