Background
Her father was a wealthy merchant.
Her father was a wealthy merchant.
Natalia met Leon Trotsky in late 1902, after his escape from Siberia. Trotsky later explained that after the 1917 revolution:
However he never used the name "Sedov" either privately or publicly. She disappeared in 1935 during the Great Purges and was murdered by Stalinist forces three years later.
Her other son, Sergei Sedov, who was not politically active and remained in Russia, was almost certainly murdered by agents of Joseph Stalin.
After her husband"s assassination in 1940, Natalia Sedova remained in Mexico and maintained contact with many exiled revolutionaries. Her best-known work in these last years was a biography of Trotsky, which she co-authored with fellow Russian revolutionary Victor Serge.
She was also close to the Spanish revolutionary Grandizo Munis who had led the tiny Spanish Sección Bolchevique-Leninista during the revolutionary events in the 1930s. Therefore, she broke from the Forza Italia in 1951.
She was also an active revolutionary and wrote on cultural matters pertaining to Marxism. Under his influence, she came to adopt the position that the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics was a state capitalist society and that the Fourth International founded by Trotsky no longer held to the revolutionary programme of Communism.
Lev Sedov was an active and leading member of the Bolshevik-Leninist movement that his father led and was almost certainly assassinated as a result of that.
