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 ...

Eighty-four years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by the Stalinist agent Ramon Mercader. Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside ...

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 ...

After being murdered at Stalin’s orders, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, alias Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), lived on for decades as the unassailable hero of aesthetically minded progressives who wished to ...

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 & ...

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

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 ...

After Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, died early in 1924, Leon Trotsky seemed to be his natural successor. But before Lenin’s body was cold, Joseph Stalin was outmaneuvering Trotsky for ...

Leon Trotsky was both an intellectual and a man of action. One of the charismatic leaders of the Russian Revolution—Lenin said there was no better Bolshevik—he created the Red Army through virtually ...

There’s a useful concept in understanding how societies deteriorate into dictatorship that was most famously developed by Leon Trotsky, although it reaches a lot further back in history. This notion ...