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

Hitler hoped that Stalin’s purges had so weakened the Red Army that the Soviet Union would suffer a crushing defeat at the first serious blow. Leon Trotsky leading the Red Army during the Civil ...

By Mark Wilmoth Early Twentieth Century London might not seem like a breeding ground for Communism, but in 1903, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were among the 50 or so attendees at the ...

Many in the party expect Red Army leader Leon Trotsky to be Lenin ... concentrating on strengthening the Soviet Union rather than world revolution. When Trotsky criticises his plans, Stalin ...

After the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, the militantly anticapitalist Soviet Union was a global ... to kill Stalin’s exiled rival, Leon Trotsky, in Mexico City. Grigulevich’s mission failed ...

Led by Lenin and Trotsky, the Bolsheviks had lately taken ... Three-quarters of a century later, the once-mighty Soviet Union is gone, collapsed and fragmented into a collection of restless ...

A campaign for control of Victoria’s 15,000-member public service union has turned personal, as members prepare to vote while ...

Europe today faces much of the same anxieties it did in the lead-up to World War II, writes Armstrong Williams.

Object of the trial was to prove or disprove the accusations of treason, sabotage and fomenting world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia.