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 result was that, on Jan. 9, 1937, Trotsky and his wife, Natalia Sedova, arrived in Mexico. Sharp. Witty. Thoughtful. Sign up for the Style Memo newsletter. Trotsky’s vision for art and ...

Trotsky and Mexico two revolutions of the twentieth century tells us of the famous Russian revolutionary asylum by President Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico ...

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 ...

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 ...