Text by the Swedish Council Communist Förbundet Arbetarmakt on the question of party and revolutionary organization.
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." ...
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 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 ...
The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York ...
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 ...