It isn’t every day you have lunch with the weapon that killed Leon Trotsky. Or that you find yourself seated next to Jonna Mendez, the former CIA Intelligence Officer, who with her husband, Tony (of ...

No matter what your political orientation, if you believe — or ever did believe — in the potential betterment of humanity, then you’ve got something to learn from the strange and tragic story of Leon ...

Eighty-four years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by the Stalinist agent Ramon Mercader. Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside ...

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionist who developed his theory of permanent revolution. In pre-revolutionary times, he had had his times of emigration, trials and imprisonment. He not only rubbed ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) held its 2008 National Convention in Philadelphia on November 20-23. Over 600 panels presented papers or roundtable discussions ...

MEXICO CITY — One of history’s most infamous murder weapons, the icepick police believe was used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has resurfaced just weeks before the 65th anniversary of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, by Bertrand M. Patenaude, $27.99 For an architect of the 20th century’s signature people’s revolution, Leon ...

After Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, died early in 1924, Leon Trotsky seemed to be his natural successor. But before Lenin’s body was cold, Joseph Stalin was outmaneuvering Trotsky for ...

"Who knows if it is the real ax?" says Leon Trotsky’s grandson, Esteban Volkov, dismissively to the Guardian. Keith Melton, for one. The private collector says he staunchly believes that an ice pick ...

An Istanbul villa once occupied by the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky during his exile from Stalin’s Russia has been put on the market for $4.4 million. Located on Büyükada Island near Istanbul, ...