The romantic image of Trotsky as the doomed prophet and quixotic revolutionary may still be with us, but a new biography aims to shatter it for good. Historian Michael Kazin on the real Trotsky.

Trotsky ca. 1895 in photographs that accompanied an arrest ... was no better Bolshevik—he created the Red Army through virtually an act of will and led it to victory in the 1918-20 civil war.

Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People's Commissar, which ... In the years of the Civil War, up to 50,000 such officers served for the Soviet cause. While they ...

Caridad and Ramón Mercader, a mother-son team of Catalan communists, veterans of the Spanish Civil War, were tapped by the NKVD to infiltrate Trotsky’s inner circle. With the help of Communist Party ...

Trotsky, ever certain of his own infallibility, ... acquired an intimate understanding of the October Revolution’s inherent logic.” “Throughout the period of the Civil War, ...

Appointing ex-Tsarist officers was questioned, but Trotsky insisted they would bring expertise essential to winning the Civil War. Political commissars were drafted into army units to spread ...

Brings together translations of Marx's most important texts in political philosophy written after 1848. The works are presented here complete, according to the first editions or the earliest ...

LEON TROTSKY was a leading Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and agitator, and politician throughout the first half of the twentieth century. A close ally of Vladimir Lenin and the head of the ...

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), was the co-leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, socialist opponent of Joseph Stalin, founder of the Fourth International, and strategist of world socialist revolution.