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Date: 1900 - 1925 [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]

Region: Russia and Central Asia Europe {location3}

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]

Medium: Public Art [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]


Artist: Trotsky, Leon (Bronstein, Lev Davidovich) (1879-1940)

Confronting Bodies: Russian Imperial Government, Soviet Union Government

Dates of Action: 1903+

Location: Russia, Soviet Union, United States, Germany, Italy

Description of Artwork: "Second Congress of the Russian Socialist Democratic Worker's Party: Report of the Siberian Delegation", 1903: Held in Brussels and London in July 1903. Trotsky sided with Menshevick faction - advocating a democratic approach to Socialism - against the Bolsheviks rejecting Lenin's dictatorial methods and organizational concepts, aiming at immediate revolution.

The Incident: 1903 Russia: Banned by the Imperial Government. 1927 Soviet Union: Banned by the government. Therefore the same writings were banned by two opposing ideologies for the same reason- that they opposed the existing philosophies of government.

Results of Incident: 1930 United States-Boston MA: Works banned. 1933 Germany: All works banned.

1933 Soviet Union: All works banned

1934 Italy: All works banned except in deluxe editions.

Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B. Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978. [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]]