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.

By the time Trotsky arrived in Mexico in January, 1937, his papers numbered in the thousands. Each time he was forced to leave a country and find sanctuary elsewhere the papers had been packed in ...

The ice axe that was plunged into Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky's skull during his gruesome murder in Mexico on August 20, 1940, is today among the prized exhibits at Washington's International ...

On August 20, 1940, Trotsky was assaulted by a GPU agent, Ramon Mercader, at his home in Coyoacan, Mexico. He died the next day. Trotsky’s assassination was a devastating blow to the cause of ...

The erection of an unloading platform at the Customs Station on the Derry-Donegal Border is practically complete ...

Trotsky replied that the characterization of the Stalinist regime as “bureaucratic collectivist”—a new and unprecedented form of exploitative society, unforeseen by Marxism—had far ...