[9] See multiple references in British Archives KV2/502, including, no. 194003, “Extract Relating to Trotzky, Leo, Socialist Activities in USA,” June 16, 1917, and no. 202607, “Anti-War Activities in the United States,” July 28, 1917. Some quote Miliukov as the source.
[10] Trotsky, Lenin, 69, quoted in Deutscher, 274.
[25] Others initial top commissars included Alexander Shliapnikoff (labor) and Anatoly V. Lunacharsky (education), with both making US speaking and fund-raising tours the prior year.
[26] “Russian from U.S. Leading Lenine Radicals,” by Arno Dosch-Fleurot, correspondent for New York World and Saint Louis Post Dispatch, August 25, 1917.
[27] See, for instance, Howe, World of Our Fathers, 326.