On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Robert Service talks about Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky and their views of communism and totalitarism. Robert Service talks about ...

On Aug. 20, 1940, the Bolshevik firebrand Lev Bronstein, better known by his nom de plume, Leon Trotsky, was viciously ...

The story goes that, as a result of the attacks he suffered, Leon Trotsky died at least three deaths. The first of them, on May 24, 1940, when the painter David Siqueiros led an attack on the house ...

FEW neurotics are geniuses. But many geniuses are neurotics. Lev Davidovich Bronstein was more than a little of both. This son of a prosperous Jewish farmer was born in the Ukraine in 1879. He died in ...

Exactly 100 years ago, on October 20, 1922, Leon Trotsky delivered one of his great political speeches before the membership of the Moscow organization of the Russian Communist Party. It was presented ...

This report was given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21, 2010. The subject of this panel is a man who remains, even 70 years after ...

It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon of Aug. 20, 1940. Leon Trotsky finished his tea and strolled through a door of his house into a grass-grown, flower-strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & ...

The notion that the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution should be an occasion for serious reflection is apt. Inasmuch as the past is never past (as Faulkner said), the catastrophic outcome ...