After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him into exile to Central Asia, Turkey and finally Mexico, where Trotsky would be ...

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles ...

The story goes that, as a result of the attacks he suffered, Leon Trotsky died at least three deaths. The first of them, on May 24, 1940, when the painter David Siqueiros led an attack on the house ...

Vadim Z. Rogovin, Was There an Alternative? 1923–1927. Trotskyism: A Look Back Through the Years. Mehring Books, 2021. ISBN 9781893638969. Available for purchase here. Was There an Alternative? The ...

WHEN THE Russian Revolution triumphed in 1917, Lenin, Trotsky and others were clear that economic conditions were ripe for socialism on a world scale, but an isolated Russia could not possibly survive ...

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 & ...

To initiate its commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the Left Opposition on October 15, 1923, the WSWS is re-publishing an editorial by David North which introduced the first-ever English ...

Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A century ...