NEW YORK POST, August 21, 1940
 
* Leon Trotsky assassination (day of)
* Soviet Union Red Army founder
* Marxist Theorist

The front page has a two column heading: "Trotsky Is Dying After Ax Attack" (see images) He would die on this day
Complete with all 22 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: The assassination of Leon Trotsky on August 21, 1940, signaled the definitive, bloody consolidation of Joseph Stalin’s absolute control over the Soviet apparatus and marked a pivotal ideological schism within global Marxism. As the foundational architect of the Red Army and a chief theorist of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Trotsky represented the final, most potent symbol of original Leninist dissent against Stalin's bureaucratic totalitarianism and his doctrine of "Socialism in One Country." By successfully projecting state-sanctioned terror across international borders into Mexico City, Stalin's NKVD demonstrated a chilling, global reach that effectively decapitated the anti-Stalinist left, fracturing the Fourth International and leaving the global communist movement strictly tethered to Moscow's dictates. Occurring simultaneously with the chaotic opening salvos of World War II and the Battle of Britain, this assassination underscored a dark geopolitical reality: even amidst a looming global war against fascism, the Soviet regime prioritized the violent eradication of internal ideological heresy, cementing a ruthless precedent of extraterritorial liquidation that would characterize the espionage landscapes of the looming Cold War.