The city of Almaty in Kazakhstan is currently demolishing the house where Leon Trotsky spent several weeks in exile from the Stalinist bureaucracy.
His rival within Russian communism was Josef Stalin; the two leaders had a visceral dislike for one another. When Stalin ...
A section of the audience at the Third International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky in Prinkipo, August 16, 2025. The World Socialist Web Site and Mehring Yayıncılık (Books), in collaboration with the ...
Who says young people aren’t politically motivated? From New York to Oakland, the men and women of the Occupy movement have put their comfort and their safety on the line to demand, um, a whole lot of ...
The National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has released a classified report detailing how Soviet intelligence monitored Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky during his exile on Büyükada, one of İstanbul’s ...
In the summer of 1937 Leon Despres, then 29 years old, went with his wife, Marian, on a three-week vacation to Mexico. A lawyer friend, Albert Goldman, had asked them to deliver a letter and some ...
In January 1917, a few weeks before the overthrow of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, Leon Trotsky came to New York. The socialist revolutionary was then in his late 30s and for the previous ...
It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon of Aug. 20, 1940. Leon Trotsky finished his tea and strolled through a door of his house into a grass-grown, flower-strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & ...
Esteban Volkov Bronstein, grandson and guardian of the memory of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky, died in Mexico on June 17, the Spanish daily El Pais reported on June 18. He was 97. Born in Yalta, ...