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| AHPSC | Archivo Histórico Provincial de Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. |
| ANC | Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Havana, Cuba. |
| BJL | Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, Great Britain. |
| BLNL | British Library Newspaper Library, London, Great Britain. |
| BNJM | Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba. |
| CERMTRI | Centre d’études et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskystes et Révolutionnaires Internationaux, Paris, France. |
| CSPT | Centro Studi Pietro Tresso, Foligno, Italy. |
| HHL | Houghton Library, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. |
| HWL | Widener Library, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. |
| HI | Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, USA. |
| IFA | Idalberto Ferrera Acosta’s personal archive, Havana, Cuba. |
| IHC(a) | Instituto de Historia de Cuba (archive), Havana, Cuba. |
| IHC(b) | Instituto de Historia de Cuba (library), Havana, Cuba. |
| IISG | Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
| MML | Marx Memorial Library, London, Great Britain. |
| NYPL | New York Public Library, New York, USA. |
| OAH | Oficina de Asuntos Históricos, Havana, Cuba. |
| OCG | Olga Cabrera García’s personal archive, Goias, Brasil. |
| PB | Pierre Broué’s personal archive, St. Martin D’Héres, France. |
| PRL | Prometheus Research Library, New York, USA. |
| RJA | Robert J Alexander’s personal archive, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. |
| RSM | Rafael Soler Martínez’s personal archive, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. |
| RTsKhIDNI | Rossiiskii Tsentr Khraneniia i Izucheniia Dokumentov Noveishei Istorii, Moscow, Russia. |
| SP | Socialist Platform archive, London, Great Britain. |
| SWP(US) | Socialist Workers’ Party (United States) archive, New York, USA. |
| TIL | Taniment Institute Library, New York, USA. |
| USNA | United States National Archives, Maryland, USA. |
In addition to providing a system of archival and bibliographic references to facilitate the future study of Trotskyism, this notation also aims to fill some of the gaps in Wolfgang and Petra Lubitz’s Trotskyist Serials Bibliography, Munich, KG Saur, 1993. With the exception of Mexico, their otherwise valuable work catalogues very little bibliographical data concerning Latin America.
Regarding quotations, for the purposes of cohesiveness my policy is to present all cited passages in English. Where interpolations in square brackets within quoted passages have been introduced, it is again an attempt on my part to ensure maximum cohesiveness and/or correct apparent major linguistic errors. I have taken it upon myself to correct minor linguistic errors, such as absent letters, missing accents, and minor misspellings without the use of square brackets. I only make such minor corrections where, in my judgement, they in no way alter the intention of the author of the cited passage. As is also an accepted custom, all characters which appear inside quotation marks in upper case, underlined, italics or bold lettering do so as in the original document or book, unless otherwise stated.
Individuals are identified using the name by which they are most commonly known, be it their real name or pseudonym. However, on the first occasion I mention a particular individual, I cite both his/her real name and pseudonym, if both are known. All pseudonyms are marked with an asterisk. If I refer to an individual only by his/her pseudonym this is because I have been unable to identify his/her real name with any degree of certainty. The only exceptions to the rule of noting the use of pseudonyms are those references I make to various leading figures in the Russian October Revolution and Bolshevik Party. I refer to all of them by their well known pseudonyms, for example, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, without making use of an asterisk.