Alexander Buchman (1911–2003) was an American

Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a ...

. Buchman was born May 16, 1911, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1933, he traveled to Japan but was deported due to perceived communist ties. Buchman went to China and spent six years in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

, where he encountered

Wang Fanxi, a leader of the

Chinese Left Opposition Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **'' Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of v ...

. In July 1939 he became publisher of the journal ''Dongxiang''. In 1939, Buchman moved to Mexico. From autumn 1939 to April 1940, Buchman lived in

Coyoacán Coyoacán ( , ) is a borough (''demarcación territorial'') in Mexico City. The former village is now the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl and most likely means "place of coyotes", when the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic ...

and worked as one of

Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian M ...

's guards. As an amateur photographer, Buchman documented Trotsky's last year of life. Buchman died in

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on January 7, 2003.

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The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet
provides a biographical sketch and a selective bibliography on Alex Buchman {{DEFAULTSORT:Buchman, Alex 1911 births 2003 deaths American Trotskyists Bodyguards American expatriates in Japan American expatriates in China