While Zinoviev and Kamenev subsequently capitulated to Stalin and rejoined the Communist Party, Trotsky was exiled to Alma Ata in January 1928, and was expelled from the Soviet Union in February 1929.

A brilliant orator and military strategist, as well as an outstanding literary critic, Trotsky was out-foxed and out-maneuvered by Joseph Stalin in the leadership struggle which followed Lenin's ...

But neither Dzerzhinsky nor Bukharin remotely approached the stature of Trotsky as revolutionary leaders. As for Krestinsky, a future member of the Left Opposition (and victim of Stalin’s purges ...

Witty. Thoughtful. Sign up for the Style Memo newsletter. Trotsky’s vision for art and culture was more liberal than Stalin’s: He believed good art was inherently revolutionary and should ...

After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin begins ruthlessly promoting himself as his political heir. Many in the party expect Red Army leader Leon Trotsky to be Lenin’s natural successor, but his ...

However, after Lenin’s death, he was politically outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin and expelled from the USSR. In exile, Trotsky continued his fierce criticism of Stalinism and advocated for ...

This was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People's Commissar, which he lost in the power struggle against Stalin in 1924. Red Army soldiers man the ...

Another Red record was added last week to the 117 executions and 97 other sentences meted out by Soviet star-chamber courts after the assassination of Dictator Joseph Stalin’s “Dear Friend ...

New book Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals tells the story of how a Wexford woman came to be the Head of Translation for the Comintern in Soviet Russia Wexford ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Robert Littell about Leon Trotsky's time living in the Bronx. Littell is the author of "Bronshtein in the Bronx." ...

Starting with young student radicals bickering about Marx and Trotsky inside City College's cafeteria, following through to the shock of war and Stalin, and then on to the further complications ...