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

The PSL is a splinter group from the Workers World Party (WWP), itself a breakaway from the Trotskyist Socialist Workers ...

By Mark Wilmoth Early Twentieth Century London might not seem like a breeding ground for Communism, but in 1903, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were among the 50 or so attendees at the ...

The offspring of a Jewish family was ashamed of the wealth of his family and the Jewish way of life. At the 5th Moscow ...

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to fiction filmmaking with 'Two Prosecutors." Read our review out of Cannes.

In the late 1920s, as Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky held their final debates before Trotsky’s exile from the Soviet Union, one of the Kremlin Palace translation teams was led by a middle-aged ...

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.

Even before William Kentridge decided to invite a boatload of rowdy, quarrelsome new guests on board, the SS Capitaine Paul-Lemerle’s passenger manifest brought together one of history’s most ...

Trotsky went on to found and lead the Red Army, playing a decisive role in the Soviet Union’s victory in the civil war (1918–1924). However, after Lenin’s death, he lost a power struggle with Joseph ...

A call to remove the names of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin from the flags of Marxism and put them on trial. After the fall of the Leninist program, events proved that the Leninist program did not lead to ...

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 ...