Mexico opens exhibit at Leon Trotsky House Museum to mark Russian Revolution centenary

Record ID: 936563

  • Title: Mexico opens exhibit at Leon Trotsky House Museum to mark Russian Revolution centenary
  • Date: 7th November 2017
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF STILL PHOTO OF TROTSKY WITH MEXICAN MURALIST, DIEGO RIVERA
  • Embargoed: 21st November 2017 19:26
  • Keywords: Russian Revolution centenary exhibition opening Leon Trotsky museum Mexico political asylum
  • Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Art,Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Human Interest / Brights / Odd News
  • Reuters ID: LVA00876H8RWJ
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  • Story Text: To mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, an exhibition was opened at the Casa Leon Trotsky Museum in Mexico City on Monday (November 6) to remember the importance of this 20th century social movement and the role Mexico played, after granting political asylum to the Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky.
    Entitled: "Reds: 100 Years of the Russian Revolution," the exhibition brings together a hundred documents, photographs, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books on the October Revolution.
    Exhibition curator Sergio Raul Arroyo Garcia said that "Rojos" gives an account of a chapter in world history, with a short narration illustrating a timeline of friendships and ruptures, exploring the Mexican socialist movement.
    In 1937, Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas granted political asylum to Trotsky, a military strategist of the Bolshevik Revolution. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, son of president Cardenas, who founded the party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), helped to cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony on Monday.
    Esteban Volkov, grandson of Leon Trotsky and director of the Leon Trotsky House Museum, acknowledged the dark side of the regime of Soviet leader, Josef Stalin's regime, which resulted in millions of deaths.
    Arroyo Garcia divided the exhibition into four themes: politics, socialist education, art and Russian personalities who arrived in Mexico during the 1920s and 1940s, such as Trotsky, Russian revolutionary and writer Victor Serge, Russian-Mexican painter Vladimir Kibalchich Rusakov and Russian Communist revolutionary, Alexandra Kollontai, among others.
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