Trotsky (1879-1940) was the co-leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, socialist opponent of Joseph Stalin, founder of the Fourth International, and strategist of world socialist revolution.

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 ...

Leon Trotsky at his desk in Prinkipo. Unable to answer Trotsky with principled arguments, Stalin was determined to silence him. The Politburo sent a representative of the GPU, the Soviet secret ...

Trotsky embodied many of the contradictions of a contradictory century, from utopian dreams of a new society to the despair of "The Revolution Betrayed," his searing 1937 indictment of Stalinism.

Only Leon Trotsky retains a certain allure. The bushy-haired Russian Jew in the pince-nez was an ardent revolutionary but also a genuine democrat, or so the legend goes.

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.

After spending all this time with Leon Trotsky, how do you wind up feeling about him? Did he move the needle of your heart, even a little? LITTELL: No. I'm more interested in him than like him.

MEXICO CITY (AP) – It's a tale of love, betrayal and history's most famous murder by ice pick. The plot to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the Soviet revolutionary-turned-exiled dissident, in Mexico ...

At 13, Trotsky and his grandson settled in Mexico. In 1990, Volkov set up a museum dedicated to Trotsky in the house in Coyoacán, in Mexico City, in which Volkov, Trotsky, and Volkov’s grandmother had ...

"Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary" by Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the life story of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, a man who couldn't get along with anyone, even his fellow Trotskyites.