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 ...

The fact that Sidney Reilly was the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond tells us a lot about the life that Reilly lived.

I recently re-read the chapter on China in CLR James’s World Revolution. It’s titled, “Stalin Ruins the Chinese Revolution.” It was published in 1936–1937. Not surprisingly, at virtually every turn, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The year 1928 can be considered a major line of demarcation in Soviet history. Internally the country terminated the brief existence of NEP, ...

A century ago, one section of Vienna played host to Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin. In January 1913, a man whose passport bore the name Stavros Papadopoulos ...

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 ...

This post is in response to Pragmatism In Psychiatric Diagnosis By Allen J Frances M.D. When Leon Trotsky opposed Josef Stalin, it was a disagreement among believers. One believed in more Communism of ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...