Lenin and Trotsky (standing in the middle) with delegates to the 10th Party Congress of the Russian Communist Party, held in Moscow in March 1921. 12.

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir Lenin or Leon Trotsky. While Lenin and Trotsky saw October 1917 as a ...

Eventually, Trotsky and Rivera feuded, partly because Trotsky had an affair with Frida Kahlo, Rivera’s wife, herself a noted artist. Van Heijenoort desperately tried to reconcile Rivera and Trotsky.

Christopher Hitchens and Robert Service introduce Leon Trotsky, “one of the half-dozen outstanding Marxist revolutionaries.” ...

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.

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York City.

Kahlo painted this self-portrait, one of the highlights of Washington’s newly renovated National Museum of Women in the Arts, after her affair with Trotsky.

On a recent visit to Norway, a German supporter of the ICFI visited the house in which Leon Trotsky took refuge some time after he was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929. This reader provided ...

Photographic images can be altered and manipulated in various ways to change their meaning. David Levi Strauss traces the motivation and art of the altered image through history.

I went to see Trotsky in the house that Diego Rivera and his wife have lent him in an outlying suburb of Mexico City. He is very well guarded and cannot go out, I am told, without a bodyguard of ...