This is the fifth part in a series. The first part was published on August 20. The second part was published on August 21. The third part published on August 25 and the fourth part on August 29. In ...

Two decades after the demolition of the Berlin Wall, nearly every icon of communism has been relegated to the garbage pit of history. Outside their own homelands, who would now deny that Stalin was ...

Without him and his brilliant political agitation, the Bolsheviks would not have come to power, never mind held on to it. But after the death of Lenin, it was Stalin who won the internal party ...

This report was given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21, 2010. The subject of this panel is a man who remains, even 70 years after ...

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. He died in ...

Trotsky was a true Renaissance figure who excelled in nearly every pursuit to which he devoted himself. He was a journalist with impeccable style, one of the twentieth century’s great orators, a ...

Esteban Volkov recalls the life and death of his grandfather Leon Trotsky. Source: guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk Esteban Volkov remembers sensing the worst as soon as he saw unusual activity outside ...

Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution, as sketched for the first time in his essay Results and Prospects (1906), was one of the most astonishing political breakthroughs in Marxist thinking at the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chapter One Armored Train On the night of January 1, 1937, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the Norwegian oil tanker Ruth greeted the New Year by blaring ...

Robert Service's debunking biography proves that being Stalin’s great enemy does not make Trotsky in any way a good man, says Simon Sebag Montefiore Trotsky, like Mao and to some extent Lenin, has ...

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