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 ...

Their central goal was the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Among those working for the GPU in the Trotskyist movement were Mark Zborowski (the secretary for Trotsky’s son, Leon Sedov), Sylvia ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...