From theory, action.

Alexander Buchman’s camera captured Trotsky feeding his rabbits, part of his daily routine and, as mounting concern for his security limited his excursions away from the house, his principal form of exercise. In January 1940, the burgeoning bunny population was transferred to new threedecker cages that Trotsky had designed. Buchman captured the moment when Trotsky gently delivered the docile creatures to their new quarters. When American socialist Max Eastman visited the house the following month, it seemed to him “so amusingly strange to be introduced to a flock of rabbits by the War Commissar and Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army.” By then, the rabbits numbered well over a hundred.