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

Four years later, Sedov was found dead in a Paris hospital while ... Mr. Volkov saw his grandfather’s bloodied body taken away on a stretcher. Trotsky, who with Lenin had helped overthrow ...

He betrays someone who has delivered her body and soul to him ... from the country in 1929. A death sentence from Josef Stalin hanging over his head, Trotsky traveled to Turkey, France and ...

When the expected death occurred he was en route to the Caucasus ... There had been no change. Lenin's body lay in state four days. Trotsky could have returned from twice as far. He did not want to be ...

"It was a very, very lonely atmosphere in the house after that." Following Trotsky's death, Volkov continued living in Mexico with his grandmother. He went to university, trained as a chemist ...

For an architect of the 20th century’s signature people’s revolution, Leon Trotsky wasn’t much of a people person. A victim of Stalin’s power-grab after Lenin’s death, Russia’s “Old ...

In a letter written to his German translator, Alexandra Ramm, Trotsky affirms that his daughter took her own life because she was not permitted to return to Soviet Russia. Sinaida’s death was ...