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 ...

A call to remove the names of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin from the flags of Marxism and put them on trial. After the fall of the Leninist program, events proved that the Leninist program did not lead to ...

The late great Earl of Birkenhead, “The Galloper,” when Secretary of State for India prior to Joseph Stalin’s break with Leon Trotsky (TIME, Oct. 10, 1927), once openly remarked with ...

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.

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 ...