A long and bitter conflict between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin over who would succeed Vladimir Lenin as the Soviet leader culminated on this day in 1928 when Stalin exiled Trotsky to Siberia.

Trotsky was one of the titans of the political and intellectual life of the 20th century. But the efforts to blackguard Trotsky, misrepresent his theoretical work, and manufacture false accounts ...

He was eventually arrested and deported back to Siberia but escaped before reaching his destination. For over a decade, Trotsky lived abroad, collaborating with fellow revolutionaries, in Vienna ...

This book documents Trotsky’s intervention in this political struggle, which was of fundamental importance for the Fourth International. Trotsky not only answered the opposition’s political ...

Trotsky became Commissar for War in the Bolshevik ... Once the Civil War began, the Bolsheviks banned all political parties and arrested their leaders. They also closed down newspapers that ...