This position taken by Zinoviev and company was demonstrated clearly by Trotsky’s recent writings Lenin and 1917 [On Lenin and Lessons of October], and even more clearly by the fact that they do not ...

[13] In Let History Judge, Medvedev acknowledged that Trotsky’s role in the leadership of the Bolshevik Party was second only to that of Lenin. He wrote: In 1921–1922 Trotsky was considered ...

Between 1914 and 1917 Lenin and Trotsky foresaw that the imperialist war would set the stage for revolutionary eruptions in Europe. This perspective was vindicated with the outbreak of the ...

Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, he had been the second most powerful man in Soviet Russia and Lenin's obvious successor. At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed ...

He found the way. But others, like Trotsky, like Martov oven, were the more correct Marxists. Behind him, Lenin swung into line a vast and primitive country of 150 million souls. Those who held ...

The Bolsheviks were extremely fortunate in the quality of their leadership, particularly in Lenin and Trotsky. Throughout the Civil War, Lenin provided the energy and drive needed to inspire ...

He dreamed of becoming an icon painter, but became famous for his vivid images of peasant women and portraits of Lenin and Trotsky. The life of Philip Malyavin is similar to his paintings – just ...