Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great ...

The whole of the former Soviet Union has descended into endless ethnic ... of the intellectual and political contribution of Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of 1917 and the foremost opponent ...

After Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, died early in 1924, Leon Trotsky seemed to be his natural successor. But before Lenin’s body was cold, Joseph Stalin was outmaneuvering Trotsky ...

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country ... and two senior officials — Joseph (or Josef) Stalin and Leon Trotsky — became rivals for leadership of the ruling Communist Party.

Leon Trotsky played a key role in shaping Communist ideology. As a close associate of Vladimir Lenin, he was instrumental in the 1917 October Revolution and later became the first foreign minister of ...

Kahlo dedicated this self-portrait to Trotsky less than three years before ... exile before finally being forced out of the Soviet Union. After short spells in Turkey and France, he went to ...

The Leon Trotsky House Museum is now run by the Mexican ... After Ukraine gained its independence from the shattered Soviet Union in 1991, Crimea became part of Ukraine and still is, although ...

This day became the "Day of the Soviet Army". On April 22 the Soviet ... This was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People's Commissar, which he lost ...