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 & ...
On August 21, 1940, Leon Trotsky, coleader of the October 1917 Revolution in Russia and founder of the Fourth International, died of a wound inflicted by the Stalinist assassin, Ramon Mercader, the ...
In this riveting real-life thriller, journalist Ireland (Churchill & Son) traces how a group of Russian spies managed to infiltrate Leon Trotsky’s inner circle. Ireland begins with Trotsky’s ...
The following is the speech by Eric London to “An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo” on Sunday, August 20. The event was held on Prinkipo, an island in the Sea of Marmara off ...
Stephen Kotkin, a Stalin biographer, founded the Hoover History Lab at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Why should anyone care about Leon Trotsky in this day and age? A Marxist ...