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

It isn’t every day you have lunch with the weapon that killed Leon Trotsky. Or that you find yourself seated next to Jonna Mendez, the former CIA Intelligence Officer, who with her husband, Tony (of ...

This is a section of a lecture delivered in 2001 in Sydney, Australia. The entire lecture (“Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky’s place in the history of the 20th Century”) appears in In Defense of ...

The WSWS organized a panel on “The Cultural, Economic and Geo-strategic Thought of Leon Trotsky: A Retrospective Analysis 70 years after His Assassination,” at the 42 nd annual convention of the ...

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

MEXICO CITY — One of history’s most infamous murder weapons, the icepick police think was used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has resurfaced just weeks before the 65th anniversary of his ...

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionist who developed his theory of permanent revolution. In pre-revolutionary times, he had had his times of emigration, trials and imprisonment. He not only rubbed ...

No matter what your political orientation, if you believe — or ever did believe — in the potential betterment of humanity, then you’ve got something to learn from the strange and tragic story of Leon ...

20 January 1925: The ‘old guard’ deemed him and his allies as working against all the canons of Bolshevism The dismissal of Trotsky is the climax of a long struggle in the Russian Communist party – ...

"Who knows if it is the real ax?" says Leon Trotsky’s grandson, Esteban Volkov, dismissively to the Guardian. Keith Melton, for one. The private collector says he staunchly believes that an ice pick ...