On the first day Trotsky arrived in New York, he gave an interview to Forverts (The Forward), a Yiddish socialist paper that then had a daily readership of 200,000 — a circulation rivaling that ...

Trotsky in New York, 1917 is a work of popular history. It does not provide an in-depth examination of Trotsky’s conceptions or the political conflicts that split the Second International ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A ship steams into New York Harbor in the first weeks of 1917, and a little boy named Sergei tells his father, Lev, that some of the buildings look so tall, they seem to scrape ...

I n January 1917, a few weeks before the overthrow of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, Leon Trotsky came to New York. The socialist revolutionary was then in his late 30s and for the previous decade ...

American Socialist Party leader Morris Hillquit was thoroughly exposed by Leon Trotsky as a two-faced reformist, during the two months Trotsky spent in New York just before the Russian Revolution ...

In January 1917, a few weeks before the overthrow of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, Leon Trotsky came to New York. The socialist revolutionary was then in his late 30s and for the previous decade ...

A ship steams into New York Harbor in the first weeks of 1917, and a little boy named Sergei tells his father, Lev, that some of the buildings look so tall, they seem to scrape the sky. They are ...

A ship steams into New York Harbor in the first weeks of 1917, and a little boy named Sergei tells his father, Lev, that some of the buildings look so tall, they seem to scrape the sky. They are ...