“An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo,” will be livestreamed from Turkey on Trotsky.com at 5:00 pm local time, 2:00 pm GMT, 10:00 am EDT (full time zone conversions) on Sunday ...

On Sunday, August 25, a remarkable intellectual event took place in Büyükada (Prinkipo), Istanbul: The Second International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky. Hosted by the Adalar (Islands) Municipality ...

In January 1917, a few weeks before the overthrow of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, Leon Trotsky came to New York. The socialist revolutionary was then in his late 30s and for the previous ...

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 & ...

In the summer of 1937 Leon Despres, then 29 years old, went with his wife, Marian, on a three-week vacation to Mexico. A lawyer friend, Albert Goldman, had asked them to deliver a letter and some ...

Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party. 1936: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened as President Franklin D.