This was Lenin’s first, publicly delivered, blow. Behind the scenes he prepared for a final attack at the Twelfth Party Congress, convened for April; and he agreed with Trotsky on joint action.

In later years, Trotsky commented that Lenin’s work was distinguished by the highest level of theoretical conscientiousness. This found particular expression in Lenin’s defense of Marxism ...

He found the way. But others, like Trotsky, like Martov oven, were the more correct Marxists. Behind him, Lenin swung into line a vast and primitive country of 150 million souls. Those who held ...

We alone are unconditional adherents of the Lenin-Trotsky theory of the party of the conscious vanguard and its role as leader of the revolutionary struggle. This theory acquires burning actuality ...

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 ...

Trotsky — readers of George Orwell’s ... who founded the Red Army and worked closely alongside Vladimir Lenin. Things got a little hot for him after Lenin’s death in 1924, and in the ...

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 ...

who would lead the February Revolution and Anatoly Lunacharsky who would become Lenin's top cultural official, as well as Trotsky himself. After the revolution, it was the enemies of Bolshevism ...

Although he is not as well known as his contemporary Leon Trotsky, he was a major power player in the Communist movement. He was one of Vladimir Lenin’s closest associates, and used his talents ...