FEW neurotics are geniuses. But many geniuses are neurotics. Lev Davidovich Bronstein was more than a little of both. This son of a prosperous Jewish farmer was born in the Ukraine in 1879.

It was the question of these “military specialists” — former tsarist officers — that defined the relationship between Stalin and Trotsky. The future "father of nations" (as Stalin would be ...

Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great ...

Behind the scenes he prepared for a final attack at the Twelfth Party Congress, convened for April; and he agreed with Trotsky on joint action. On March 5 he had a sharp exchange with Stalin.

Stalin's hypothesis of building socialism in one country and Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution. If we examine this debate and its consequences from today's vantage point, it soon ...

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 ...

Or was that all? “Stalin’s . . . spite,” wrote Lenin, “. . . is a most evil factor in politics.” Said Trotsky: “He is a kind of opportunist with a bomb.” In the outer world ...

On August 20, 1940, that trail of persecution finally caught up with Leon Trotsky when he was killed with an ice axe by an assassin acting on Joseph Stalin's orders -- his grave is in Mexico City ...

Had Trotsky rather than Stalin come to power after Lenin's death, he would have happily continued all of the above, and in some cases doubled down on it. Policies 3 and 7 on this list were ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Bullet holes still pockmark the walls of the house in Mexico where Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was brutally murdered 80 years ago, a reminder of an earlier ...