Because of his wound in the head, he was sent to a sanatorium in Dresden to recover in late 1916. He is now seeking a professorship at the local art academy (which he eventually gets in 1919).

Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky got an ice pick ... “The one-time Russian war minister had a wound in the skull which exposed his brain ... and in 1961 the head of the KGB gave him Russia’s ...

Trotsky died of the wound inflicted by the killer, Ramon Mercader, on the following day. This anniversary does not mark a five- or 10-year interval, which, as a matter of formal custom, ...

After being murdered at Stalin’s orders, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, alias Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), lived on for decades as the unassailable hero of aesthetically minded progressives who wished ...

Trotsky embodied many of the contradictions of a contradictory century, from utopian dreams of a new society to the despair of "The Revolution Betrayed," his searing 1937 indictment of Stalinism.

MEXICO CITY (AP) – It's a tale of love, betrayal and history's most famous murder by ice pick. The plot to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the Soviet revolutionary-turned-exiled dissident, in Mexico ...