Leon Trotsky, co-leader of the October 1917 Revolution, was assassinated in Mexico on August 20, 1940. Security and the Fourth International, launched by the International Committee of the Fourth ...
Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great Marxist revolutionary and co-leader alongside Vladimir Lenin of the ...