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 ...

Lev Bronshtein, whom history and the world would know as Leon Trotsky, is at the center of Robert Littell's new novel, "Bronshtein In The Bronx," set in the 10 weeks that the Russian revolutionary ...

Every news story about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall seemed to include one of the signature images of the era -- a statue of Soviet founder V.I. Lenin abandoned on a junk heap.

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was, alongside Vladimir Lenin, the greatest revolutionary leader of the 20th century. Trotsky and Lenin led the Bolshevik Party and the Russian working class in the 1917 ...

Kahlo dedicated this self-portrait to Trotsky less than three years before his assassination The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon ...

Esteban Volkov, the grandson of Leon Trotsky, has died in Mexico at the age of 97, reports Mexico newspaper La Jornada. Volkov was the last living witness to Trotsky’s assassination and the keeper of ...

TROTSKY stood up gloriously against the blows of fate these ... "Arrogance," she said, "would be a better word than pride. Leon Davidovich is self-assertive and explosive, a little difficult that way ...

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 decade ...

Esteban Volkov, who witnessed the dying breaths of his grandfather, Leon Trotsky — the exiled Russian revolutionary leader whose assassination in Mexico in 1940 had been ordered by archrival ...