Tunku Varadarajan writes that Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky “attracted the ire of die-hard Trotskyites world-wide for saying that their hero shared ...

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 & ...

This report was given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21, 2010. The subject of this panel is a man who remains, even 70 years after ...

Eighty-four years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by the Stalinist agent Ramon Mercader. Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside ...