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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War Reviewed by Maria Lipman March/April 2024 Published on February 20, 2024. In This Review. ... The Bolshevik leader Leon ...

LONDON, Jan. 23, 1924 (INS) - Leon Trotsky, people's commissar for war in the Russian government, summoned a council of war today to deal with any emergency which may arise from the death of Lenin ...