Leon Trotsky, subject of the Netflix mini-series ”Trotsky.” The photo was taken a few days before his murder on Aug. 20, 1940, at his home in Mexico City.

Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical ...

The second, led by Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, ousted the provisional government. Despite the chaos, the U.S. and Allies desperately needed Russia to continue fighting.

Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879 – 1940) working on his book ‘The History of the Russian Revolution’ in his study at Principe, ... pro-Vladimir Putin propaganda.

Eighty-two years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three ...

Leon Trotsky, ca. 1939 Born in New York City, George Sherman (1908-1991) moved to Hollywood as a young man and by the age of twenty-nine was directing his own films, specializing in Westerns. In 1958 ...

THE RED MILLIONAIRE: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF WILLI MUENZENBERG, MOSCOW’S SECRET PROPAGANDA TSAR IN THE WEST, 1917-1940 By Sean McMeekin Yale University Press, $32.50, 416 pages REVIEWED BY ...

The Trotsky Canada Production: An Alliance Films release of a Park Ex Pictures production, with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Sodec -- Quebec, the Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit ...

A new biography tries to extinguish the myth of the kinder, gentler Trotsky. Trotsky Robert Service Harvard University Press, $35 When Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City by an agent of ...

Stalinist propaganda transformed him into a nefarious figure intent on bringing down the revolution. Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940, second from left) and his wife Natalia Sedova (1882 ...