Text by the Swedish Council Communist Förbundet Arbetarmakt on the question of party and revolutionary organization.

In 1917, Germany announces it will wage unrestricted submarine warfare against all ships, including passenger carriers, in ...

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." ...

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago ...

The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...

Trotsky’s legacy in power is defined by his leadership of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921). As Commissar of War, he transformed the Red Army from a disorganized rabble into ...

The Bolsheviks were extremely fortunate in the quality of their leadership, particularly in Lenin and Trotsky. Throughout the Civil War, Lenin provided the energy and drive needed to inspire ...

The Red Army faced the problem of creating a competent and reliable officers' corps, leading Trotsky to mobilize former officers of the imperial army. In the years of the Civil War, up to 50,000 ...

At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed leader ... the forces of the counter-revolution in Russia's three year Civil War. A brilliant orator and military strategist, as well as an ...

However, as the Civil War developed, the White Armies began to ... This made communication between the various battlefronts much easier. Trotsky was able to move troops and supplies quickly ...