In the recent profusion of books on Stalin's Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky has seemed almost forgotten, but now along come two new biographies -- one a full-life study, the other a detailed tale of his ...

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the life and thought of Leon Trotsky, particularly among the youth. In response, a number of deplorable biographies have appeared, including those ...

Western historians have been in thrall to the mythic aura Leon Trotsky created for himself—“until now,” said Michael J. Bonafield in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In his “iconoclastic yet rigorously ...

“Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary,” by Dmitri Volkogonov. Translated by Harold Shukman. The Free Press. 560 pages. $32.50 Leon Trotsky is one of the most fascinating and forgotten figures of the ...

Having covered Lenin and Stalin, Oxford history professor Service completes his biographical trilogy with the life of Leon Trotsky. Thick and intensely researched but a pleasure to read, it should ...

An audience of more than 150 filled the upstairs auditorium of Sydney’s Gleebooks bookstore last night to hear David North launch his In Defence of Leon Trotsky: A Reply to the Falsifications of ...

During much of the 20th century, Leon Trotsky’s legacy was a source of strife on both the left and right — and 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the scholarly controversy surrounding ...

It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon of Aug. 20, 1940. Leon Trotsky finished his tea and strolled through a door of his house into a grass-grown, flower-strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & ...

When Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City by an agent of Stalin, in 1940, the American novelist James T. Farrell took to the pages of Partisan Review to memorialize him. “The life of Leon ...

Every so often, one scholar will assess another’s book so harshly that it becomes legendary. The most durable example must be A.E. Housman, whose anti-blurbs retain their sting after a century and ...

But neither can one imagine such a film being made about any other idol of the American Left. Any takers on an image of Woody Guthrie making love to Salma Hayek, as Leon Trotsky (played by Geoffrey ...