He moved on to France, then Norway and finally Mexico, the Russians pressuring other nations to deny Trotsky asylum. His followers feared that Stalin was plotting to assassinate the Old Man ...

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

For an architect of the 20th century’s signature people’s revolution, Leon Trotsky wasn’t much of a people person. A victim of Stalin’s power-grab after Lenin’s death, Russia’s “Old ...

[4] Trotsky emphasized that the development of modern imperialism required the stamping out of any semblance of democracy within the old unions. In Mexico, he noted, the trade unions “have ...

who published a doorstop of a book called "The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky" in 1978. What Service does get right is the Old Man's genius for a kind of Bolshevik nostalgia ...

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 ...

And Heer was wrong in saying I ever refer to Trotsky as “the old man,” something I consider a ridiculous affectation.) I plead guilty; I did, indeed, emit a barely serious remark or two in ...

Trotsky describes the progression of a fascist ... for Resistance Against Fascism” (a mass organization embracing the old Reichsbanner, the SPD youth, and other labor and liberal groups) but ...

Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929, and took refuge in several countries. He made his first home in a sprawling mansion on the island of Buyukada, a short boat ride from the ...