His consecration to the cause of socialism was deep. It was absolute. I talked about Trotsky's famous pride one day with his first sweetheart, one who loved him and conspired with him when he was ...
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879 into a wealthy Jewish family in Yanovka, Ukraine, Trotsky was a bright child. He was educated in Odessa and Nikolayev, excelled at mathematics, read Marx ...
Its principal objective has been to discredit Leon Trotsky as a significant historical figure, to deny that Trotsky represented an alternative to Stalinism, or that his political legacy contains ...
The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky. It wasn’t wonderful, of course — it was a century you wouldn’t wish on anyone.