Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, he had been the second most powerful man in Soviet Russia and Lenin's obvious successor. At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed ...

In the spring of 1917, Trotsky was a Russian exile living in New York City when he first heard the news that a spontaneous ...

The last 20 years have witnessed an anti-intellectual counterrevolution in the field of Soviet studies in general and, in particular, the study of Leon Trotsky. The initial cause of this reaction ...

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...

Leon Trotsky’s death marked the end of a revolutionary life. Today, some see him as a heroic, radical, and original thinker in the Marxist tradition. Others, particularly in Putin’s Russia ...

MOSCOW, December 17. /TASS/. The streaming company Netflix has bought the rights to the Russian series Trotsky, a representative with the Sreda production company told TASS. Sreda is in charge of ...

Text by the Swedish Council Communist Förbundet Arbetarmakt on the question of party and revolutionary organization.

and in November 1927 Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled from the Russian Communist Party. In December, all supporters of the Left Opposition were expelled from the party. While Zinoviev and ...

A long and bitter conflict between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin over who would succeed Vladimir Lenin as the Soviet leader culminated on this day in 1928 when Stalin exiled Trotsky to Siberia ...

leading Trotsky to mobilize former officers of the imperial army. In the years of the Civil War, up to 50,000 such officers served for the Soviet cause. While they mostly remained loyal to the ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Robert Littell about Leon Trotsky's time living in the Bronx. Littell is the author of "Bronshtein in the Bronx." ...