This speech was given by Andrei Ritsky, a representative of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in Russia, at the ...

If this sounds like the plot of streaming spy caper The Americans, then Shaun Walker’s history of “illegals” – as opposed to ...

Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

We alone are unconditional adherents of the Lenin-Trotsky theory of the party of the conscious vanguard and its role as leader of the revolutionary struggle. This theory acquires burning actuality ...

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 ...

With Trotsky’s support, Lenin succeeded in forcing the reinstatement of the monopoly. But, within a few weeks, a more serious crisis arose over the crude methods employed by Stalin and his ...

Soviet dignitaries such as Joseph Stalin and other leading figures gave speeches commemorating Lenin, and huge crowds gathered to say goodbye to the father of the nation. However, Leon Trotsky ...

At each of the first four congresses of the Communist International—those held while Lenin was still alive and politically active—Leon Trotsky insisted that the central historical lesson of ...