The World - News from Aug. 18, 1989

An official Soviet magazine published works by Leon Trotsky for the first time since the long-reviled former hero of the 1917 revolution was exiled and, in 1940, assassinated in Mexico, presumably by agents of his archrival, Josef Stalin. Young Communist republished a series of Trotsky’s articles called “The New Course,” first printed in the party daily Pravda in 1923. The magazine said that publication of Trotsky’s writing is “a step toward restoring him as an eloquent revolutionary and man of letters.” President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s glasnost (openness) campaign has not rehabilitated Trotsky as it has other Communist Party members executed by Stalin’s orders, but he is now treated as a historic figure.