The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky. It wasn’t wonderful, of course — it was a century you wouldn’t wish on anyone.
Lev Bronshtein, whom history and the world would know as Leon Trotsky, is at the center of Robert Littell's new novel, "Bronshtein In The Bronx," set in the 10 weeks that the Russian revolutionary ...
Later, in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, a new generation of historians sought to deal objectively and honestly with the October Revolution and its greatest figures, including Leon Trotsky.
Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, he had been the second most powerful man in Soviet Russia and Lenin's obvious successor. At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed ...
The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Naval War College Review Vol. 27, No. 1, July-August 1974 ARMIES AND REVOLUTION: TROTSKY'S PRE-191... Leon Trotsky, more than any other man, was ...
NPR's Scott Simon asks Robert Littell about Leon Trotsky's time living in the Bronx. Littell is the author of "Bronshtein in the Bronx." ...