was a Trotsky supporter who was later arrested and disappeared into Stalin’s prisons, reputedly murdered by the regime. Zinaida was allowed to leave the Soviet Union with her son, then 5 years ...

Volkov's father, Trotsky's son-in-law, had been sent to the gulag in the 1930s. Zinaida had committed suicide when they lived in exile in Paris. Volkov recalls his grandfather rising early each ...

Trotsky dropped to the floor and reportedly bit the “armed bluejackets” as they dragged him off the ship. His 11-year-old son then jumped into the melee by punching one of the officers.

While studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, he met Sylvia Ageloff, an American friend of Trotsky. As a Soviet spy, Mercader pretended he was Jacques Mornard, the son of a Belgian diplomat and a ...

In January 1917, a strikingly handsome radical-revolutionary, Lev Davidovich Bronstein — otherwise known as Leon Trotsky — arrived into this vast cosmopolitan-cultural-melting-pot. Kenneth D.

He became the ever-present political assistant of Leon Sedov, Trotsky’s eldest son and the leader of the Fourth International in Europe. With information provided by Zborowski-Etienne ...