The New Trotsky: No Longer a Devil, by Craig R. Whitney. Published in the New York Times on January 16, 1989; accessed May 8, 2008. "And almost every Soviet writer and historian now generally accepts the view that it was Stalin himself, not Lavrenti Beria, who ordered Trotsky's assassination... None of this comes as news to Western historians, or independent-minded Soviet historians and writers long aware of the facts."
