Iskra to allow Trotsky to stay in Europe, rather than be assigned to illegal work in Russia, with a high risk that he would be arrested. In his memoirs, Trotsky recorded that Deutsch "treated me very kindly" and "stood up for me" and that they were "bound by genuine friendship" but that he "never had and never could have any political influence over me." Footnotes Other sources consulted Leopold H. Haimson. The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries, Cambridge University Press, 1987; p. 472, note 6. Spartacus Educational - History on Russian Revolutionaries 1855 births 1941 deaths People from Tulchyn Ukrainian Jews Mensheviks Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Russian socialists Jewish socialists