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	Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.		Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.

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 [[File:Trotsig.jpg|right|border|thumb|300px|Trotsky's signature]]
 Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh.  He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.
 This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand.  It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].

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	Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.		Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.

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	Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.		Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh. He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.

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 Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh.  He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] on behalf of a group of students 'of all shades of political opinion'. Though honoured, he felt compelled to decline the invitation.
 This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand.  It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].
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 Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway.  Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.
-== References ==
+== Sources ==
 Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935 (Faber & Faber, 1958)

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	Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway. Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.		Trotsky had been exiled from Russia in 1929 and his reply to Levitt was written less than a fortnight before he left France, after two years there, to begin a year and a half in Norway. Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, Trotsky settled in Mexico. On 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.
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 Leon Trotsky (Len Davidovitch Bornstein), 1879-1940, Russian revolutionary and co-architect of the Russian Revolution, has an interesting ''what if'' connection with the University of Edinburgh.  He was invited to stand for election as [[Rector]] in 1935 by [[Reginald Nathaniel Levitt]] but, though honoured, declined the invitation. This was the same year that [[Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)]] was invited but also declined to stand.
-It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Herbert John Clifford Grierson|Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson]] then stepped up us Rector.
+It was [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936)|Viscount Allenby of Megiddo]] who went on to become the Edinburgh University Rector in 1935, though he died very suddenly in London the following year from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm - on 14 May 1936. [[Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)|Sir Herbert Grierson]] was elected in the ensuing [[Rectorial Election, 1936|Rectorial Election]].
 Just a year after the invitation from Edinburgh students, in 1936, Trotsky settled in Mexico. But, on 20 August 1940, acting on the orders of Stalin, Ramon Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice pick and he died the next day.
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 == Archives ==
-[[Letter from Leon Trotsky to the students of Edinburgh University, 7 June 1935]]
+*[[Letter from Leon Trotsky to the students of Edinburgh University, 7 June 1935]]
 [[Category:Rectors|Trotsky, Leon]]

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