On Aug. 20, 1940, the Bolshevik firebrand Lev Bronstein, better known by his nom de plume, Leon Trotsky, was viciously ...
With the founding of the Fourth International in September 1938, Stalin’s secret police turned all their attention to the assassination of its leader, Leon Trotsky. Barred from residence in almost ...
In the summer of 1937 Leon Despres, then 29 years old, went with his wife, Marian, on a three-week vacation to Mexico. A lawyer friend, Albert Goldman, had asked them to deliver a letter and some ...