[13] Including even Winston Churchill, writing in 1937: “He found a wife who shared the Communist faith. She worked and plotted at his side. She shared his first exile in Siberia in the days of the Czar. She bore him children. She aided his escape. He deserted her.” Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 200, from Nedava, 239, note 46.
[15] Even Isaac Deutscher, perhaps Trotsky’s friendliest biographer, found it difficult to believe that his separation from Alexandra Lvovna in Siberia didn’t haunt him. To Deutscher, this explained why Trotsky, in his own autobiography, “devoted no more than a single sentence to the whole affair.” Deutscher, 71.