On Aug. 20, 1940, the Bolshevik firebrand Lev Bronstein, better known by his nom de plume, Leon Trotsky, was viciously ...

“An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo,” will be livestreamed from Turkey on Trotsky.com at 5:00 pm local time, 2:00 pm GMT, 10:00 am EDT (full time zone conversions) on Sunday ...

Josh Ireland re-examines the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940, exploring the characters and motivations behind one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 & ...

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 ...

His rival within Russian communism was Josef Stalin; the two leaders had a visceral dislike for one another. When Stalin ...