The Bolsheviks : Death of Trotsky - Forgotten History

From the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE : [ "Further on, Sagan returns to the issue of Stalinist historical falsification and reports on his own efforts to oppose it: “But it’s hard to keep potent historical truths bottled up forever. New data repositories are uncovered. New, less ideological, generations of historians grow up. In the late 1980s and before, Ann Druyan and I would routinely smuggle copies of Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution into the USSR—so our colleagues could know a little about their own political beginnings.” [ "Smuggling the works of Trotsky into the Soviet Union was a courageous act that involved considerable personal risk. But Sagan felt it was his duty as a scientist to make known the advances of human reason in all fields, including history. He saw Trotsky’s history of the revolution as a weapon against the falsifications of Stalin and all those who attack reason and progress." ]