FEW neurotics are geniuses. But many geniuses are neurotics. Lev Davidovich Bronstein was more than a little of both. This son of a prosperous Jewish farmer was born in the Ukraine in 1879. He died in ...
On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...
Vadim Z. Rogovin, Was There an Alternative? 1923–1927. Trotskyism: A Look Back Through the Years. Mehring Books, 2021. ISBN 9781893638969. Available for purchase here. Was There an Alternative? The ...
Leon Trotsky, the exiled Soviet leader, now residing on the island of Prinkipo, Turkey, accuses Josef Stalin, the Soviet dictator, responsible for his exile, with direct responsibility for the suicide ...
The German supporters of Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian Communist leader, are publishing today a letter from Moscow which confirms the report that Stalin, present-day Bolshevik dictator, ordered the ...
I recently re-read the chapter on China in CLR James’s World Revolution. It’s titled, “Stalin Ruins the Chinese Revolution.” It was published in 1936–1937. Not surprisingly, at virtually every turn, ...