Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...