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 ...

Studying the sources relating to the conflict between Stalin and Trotsky between 1923 and 1927 is highly revealing. It shows the importance of Stalin’s position as Party Secretary and the way he used ...

Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and early architect of the Soviet state, is deported by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia. He lives there in ...

And to certify this, Lenin, when he fell sick, offered to make him vice-president of the Council of People's Commissars -- offered, that is, to designate Trotsky before the world as his successor, an ...

Exiled by Stalin in 1929, Trotsky went to live on the Princes Islands near Istanbul. For four years he fished, wrote and developed the doctrine of Trotskyism. Remarkable photographs from the David ...

Rogovin insists that it is impossible to understand the purges apart from Stalin’s determination to stamp out all vestiges of Trotsky’s influence which, despite years of repression ...

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." ...

While Zinoviev and Kamenev subsequently capitulated to Stalin and rejoined the Communist Party, Trotsky was exiled to Alma Ata in January 1928, and was expelled from the Soviet Union in February 1929.

In August, 1940, Stalin arranged the murder of Trotsky in his remote and half-forgotten Mexican exile. The point was to show that impotence was no defence against Stalin’s revenge. It took 51 ...

New book Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals tells the story of how a Wexford woman came to be the Head of Translation for the Comintern in Soviet Russia Wexford ...