Western historians have been in thrall to the mythic aura Leon Trotsky created for himself—“until now,” said Michael J. Bonafield in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In his “iconoclastic yet rigorously ...

On Aug. 20, 1940, the Bolshevik firebrand Lev Bronstein, better known by his nom de plume, Leon Trotsky, was viciously ...

Tunku Varadarajan writes that Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky “attracted the ire of die-hard Trotskyites world-wide for saying that their hero shared ...

Your publishing company is preparing a German edition of Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky. This project has provoked surprise and consternation on the part of professional historians. Trotsky ...

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 ...

Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879 – 1940) working on his book ‘The History of the Russian Revolution’ in his study at Principe, Gulf of Guinea. Hulton Archive/Getty Images In 1903, a newspaper ...

Yakov Vasilievich Ozerov came from a peasant family in the North Caucasus. He became a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and then of its left split, the Union of Socialist ...

Fronting a busy highway yet hidden from view by a high concrete wall, the residence at 45 Viena St. looks like any other in the Mexico City suburb of Coyoacan, with its covered vines, Old World arches ...