Talk:Trotsky's train

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I've been reading Trotsky's autobiography and came here looking for more detail about the train. I see there are no sources and some of the info here conflicts with what Trotsky wrote. Of course he's not a completely objective source but at least he is a source and there are no inline citations at all so I'm going to delete anything that wasn't confirmed by Trotsky (I'll leave things I delete here on the talk page) and add his autobiography to reference those facts that are consistent with it. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 20:09, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Here is the original article. The main things I deleted were the claims about an air squadron being part of the train and that Stalin visited the train, neither of those are mentioned in Trotsky's autobiography. Original Article: Trotsky's train was the personal armoured train of Leon Trotsky, the Soviet People's Commissar of Defense, which he had built in August 1918. It included a telegraph station, a library, a printing house, a radio station, an automobile garage and a small air squadron. The staff on the train included many soviet military and civilian procurement specialists. A special newspaper – "V Puti" (В пути, On the Road), which served as agitation for the Red Army – was published in it. During the Russian Civil War, the train was visited by prominent Bolshevik leaders, including Joseph Stalin. "Train of Victory" contributed to the formation of the Red Army and the subsequent consolidation of the power of the Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 20:33, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your interest in the topic: the best sourse that I know is "Tarkhova N. S. Trotsky's Train. Unknown Page in the History of the Civil War // The Trotsky Reappraisal / ed. by T. Brotherstone and P. Dukes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. ISBN 9780748603176" (it is avilable online). Best regards --Balabinrm (talk) 00:04, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * P.S.: Or RU-wiki, of course ) --Balabinrm (talk) 00:05, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

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The image captioned "Leon Trotsky delivering a speech to the 51st Rifle Division atop the train in Crimea, 1921" appears to be an armored car, not a train. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noworld (talk • contribs) 15:14, 4 December 2023 (UTC)