It isn’t every day you have lunch with the weapon that killed Leon Trotsky. Or that you find yourself seated next to Jonna Mendez, the former CIA Intelligence Officer, who with her husband, Tony (of ...

Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great Marxist revolutionary and co-leader alongside Vladimir Lenin of the ...

Eighty-four years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by the Stalinist agent Ramon Mercader. Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside ...

MEXICO CITY — One of history’s most infamous murder weapons, the icepick police believe was used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has resurfaced just weeks before the 65th anniversary of ...

When an assassin dug his axe into the skull of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, the man who rushed to Trotsky’s aid was his driver and secretary, Joseph Hansen. Leon Trotsky was a leader of ...

No matter what your political orientation, if you believe — or ever did believe — in the potential betterment of humanity, then you’ve got something to learn from the strange and tragic story of Leon ...

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionist who developed his theory of permanent revolution. In pre-revolutionary times, he had had his times of emigration, trials and imprisonment. He not only rubbed ...

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 for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, by Bertrand M. Patenaude, $27.99 For an architect of the 20th century’s signature people’s revolution, Leon ...

"Who knows if it is the real ax?" says Leon Trotsky’s grandson, Esteban Volkov, dismissively to the Guardian. Keith Melton, for one. The private collector says he staunchly believes that an ice pick ...