The party now had 76,000 members, double what it in February. Stalin wrote a little pamphlet called "Land for the Peasants". This in essence told the peasants to "form a committee and take the land!" ...

As for Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev ... at a session of the Petrograd Party Committee, Lenin called Trotsky “the best Bolshevik.” But this was a deliberate exaggeration, since Trotsky had ...

Just a few weeks after the German defeat, Stalin and Bukharin announced the ... and signified a rejection of the strategic conclusions that Lenin, Trotsky and Luxemburg had drawn from the collapse ...

After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin begins ruthlessly promoting himself as his political heir. Many in the party expect Red Army leader Leon Trotsky to be Lenin’s natural successor, but his ...

The reports reveal how Soviet agents closely monitored Leon Trotsky during his exile on the Büyükada island between 1929 and ...

However, after Lenin’s death, he was politically outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin and expelled from the USSR. In exile, Trotsky continued his fierce criticism of Stalinism and advocated for ...

Political observers here believe that Stalin, minister of nationalities, will succeed Lenin, although all admit that none can really fill the place of the governing mind of the revolution.

Things got a little hot for him after Lenin’s death in 1924 ... opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico by one of Stalin’s henchmen in 1940, after several failed ...