On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles ...

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 characteristic ...

I recently re-read the chapter on China in CLR James’s World Revolution. It’s titled, “Stalin Ruins the Chinese Revolution.” It was published in 1936–1937. Not surprisingly, at virtually every turn, ...

A century ago, one section of Vienna played host to Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin. In January 1913, a man whose passport bore the name Stavros Papadopoulos ...

This post is in response to Pragmatism In Psychiatric Diagnosis By Allen J Frances M.D. When Leon Trotsky opposed Josef Stalin, it was a disagreement among believers. One believed in more Communism of ...

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 ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...