all morning he was struck august 20 if he received a telegram saying his papers are arrived safe at harvard. $6,000 is what harvard paid all with $6,000, quite amazing. but the exiled papers which means everything from 1929 brandt trotsky was exiled from the soviet union all the way up until now his death, those were not open to scholars until 1980. and because of that out to all scholars come isaac who wrote the classic trilogy had access to those archives the you have to trust him and he wasn t great for sources, not always, and when it came to the affair with frida he looked the other way and he couldn t believe it was happening. he was flustered. you can t blame him, he was riding in the 1950 s. but the boy to biography had some access to this but the speed of biographies of trotsky that cannot of the 1970 s, no one had our access so people than kind of lose interest in trotsky and then when they regain interest, and it starts with dmitri, a former soviet army general who