For an architect of the 20th century’s signature people’s revolution, Leon Trotsky wasn’t much of a people person. A victim of Stalin’s power-grab after Lenin’s death, Russia’s “Old ...

Trotsky embodied many of the contradictions of a contradictory century, from utopian dreams of a new society to the despair of "The Revolution Betrayed," his searing 1937 indictment of Stalinism.

Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in his garden in Coyoacan, Mexico, in 1937. Trotsky didn't work well with others, Bertrand Patenaude writes. Former Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, in the ...

After Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, died early in 1924, Leon Trotsky seemed to be his natural successor. But before Lenin’s body was cold, Joseph Stalin was outmaneuvering Trotsky ...

Leon Trotsky. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images. Tunku Varadarajan writes that Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky “attracted the ire of die-hard Trotskyites world ...

The Trotsky Canada Production: An Alliance Films release of a Park Ex Pictures production, with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Sodec -- Quebec, the Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit ...

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), was the co-leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, socialist opponent of Joseph Stalin, founder of the Fourth International, and strategist of world socialist revolution.

Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical ...

The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky. It wasn’t wonderful, of course — it was a century you wouldn’t wish on anyone.