‘Bronshtein in the Bronx’ Review: A Tall Trotsky Tale
The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...
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Robert Littell's 'Bronshtein in the Bronx' imagines Trotsky's time living in the Bronx
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." ...
On This Day, Jan. 31: Apollo 14 blasts off for moon
Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in ...
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It happened today – this day in history – January 31
1953: A car ferry sinks in the Irish Sea in one of the worst gales of the winter, claiming the lives of up to 130 passengers and crew. On the same day, Isthmian League side Walthamstow Avenue draw 1-1 ...
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RUSSIA: They Always Confess
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 ...
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Adding Permanency to the Existing Border - On This Day in 1925
Trotsky Gives In It is semi-officially stated ... was held yesterday by branches of the party regarding the attitude of [Leon] Trotsky. Trotsky in a letter declared that he himself regarded ...
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Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism
Breton’s meeting with the Mexican painter Diego Riviera and Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, where Breton and Trotsky founded the International Federation of Independent ...
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140 years since the Berlin Congress: The new Scramble for Africa—Part Two
The most far-sighted of these revolutionary internationalists, like Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg, intervened to politically rearm the working class. In their major works ...