The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky. It wasn’t wonderful, of course — it was a century you wouldn’t wish on anyone.

Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, he had been the second most powerful man in Soviet Russia and Lenin's obvious successor. At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed ...

Later, in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, a new generation of historians sought to deal objectively and honestly with the October Revolution and its greatest figures, including Leon Trotsky.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Robert Littell about Leon Trotsky's time living in the Bronx. Littell is the author of "Bronshtein in the Bronx." ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Naval War College Review Vol. 27, No. 1, July-August 1974 ARMIES AND REVOLUTION: TROTSKY'S PRE-191... Leon Trotsky, more than any other man, was ...

At each of the first four congresses of the Communist International—those held while Lenin was still alive and politically active—Leon Trotsky insisted that the central historical lesson of ...

This was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People's Commissar, which he lost in the power struggle against Stalin in 1924. Red Army soldiers man the ...

Marilyn Vogt-Downey was a Russian translator for many years. She translated the writings of Leon Trotsky for the Pathfinder Press.Writings of Leon Trotsky series. She also translated ...