Trotsky, standing in the center, at the Third Congress of the Communist International, June-July 1921. 4. The resolution on industry [] demands the strengthening and reinforcement of the ...

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

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.

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.

In Norway, the Social Democratic Workers Party had just come to power. This party regarded itself as standing to the left of the Second International and had even belonged to the Communist ...

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 ...

Kahlo dedicated this self-portrait to Trotsky less than three years before his assassination The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon ...

Ana Alicia Salas, the grand-daughter of a secret policeman who probed Trotsky's death in Mexico City, says she has it. But Trotsky's grandson has told the BBC that he will not deal with Ms Salas if ...