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===== Collaboration with the Hearst Press =====
''“He received $10,000 for his first articles for the Daily Express, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, and other newspapers. Soon he would receive an advance of $7,000 from an American publisher for his autobiography, and for a series of articles entitled ‘The History of the Russian Revolution’ the Saturday Evening Post paid him $45,000.”''
-Volkogonov’s Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, page 323.
This is in money from the 1920s and 30s, of course, so $62,000 in 1935 is about $1,170,000 in 2020.
secondary sources:
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Revision as of 12:32, 26 November 2020


Collaboration with the Hearst Press

“He received $10,000 for his first articles for the Daily Express, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, and other newspapers. Soon he would receive an advance of $7,000 from an American publisher for his autobiography, and for a series of articles entitled ‘The History of the Russian Revolution’ the Saturday Evening Post paid him $45,000.”

-Volkogonov’s Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, page 323.

This is in money from the 1920s and 30s, of course, so $62,000 in 1935 is about $1,170,000 in 2020.


secondary sources:

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%89%98%E6%B4%9B%E8%8C%A8%E5%9F%BA%E4%B8%BB%E4%B9%89

https://www.ecured.cu/Le%C3%B3n_Trotsky

http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/trotsky-bse-e.html

https://kommynist.ru/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9,_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87