The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky. It wasn’t wonderful, of course — it was a century you wouldn’t wish on anyone.

Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, he had been the second most powerful man in Soviet Russia and Lenin's obvious successor. At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Naval War College Review Vol. 27, No. 1, July-August 1974 ARMIES AND REVOLUTION: TROTSKY'S PRE-191... Leon Trotsky, more than any other man, was ...

In January 1917, a few weeks before the overthrow of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, Leon Trotsky came to New York. The socialist revolutionary was then in his late 30s and for the previous decade ...

At each of the first four congresses of the Communist International—those held while Lenin was still alive and politically active—Leon Trotsky insisted that the central historical lesson of ...

Its principal objective has been to discredit Leon Trotsky as a significant historical figure, to deny that Trotsky represented an alternative to Stalinism, or that his political legacy contains ...

Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky and writer Joseph Brodsky are among the roll call of famous Russians who were imprisoned at the Kresty jail complex in the imperial capital of Saint Petersburg.

IDSVA at the Museo Casa de Leon Trotsky, Mexico City, January 2025 (photo by Simonetta Moro) Apply today for September 2025 admission. The IDSVA PhD in Visual Arts: Philosophy, Aesthetics ...