After the death of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky embarked on a struggle for power. “Leon Trotsky was not just another politician. He was one of the minds behind the Russian Revolution. A thinker. A strategist. A man who helped shape history. For a moment, it seemed that Trotsky might one day succeed Vladimir Lenin after Lenin's death in 1924. Many believed he was the natural heir. He had the ideas. He had the influence. He had the respect. But behind the scenes, another man was quietly pulling every

Russian Revolution 7-8 November 1917 Today is the 103rd Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. On 7-8 of November 1917 the Bolsheviks took control of the Winter Palace in Petrograd (Saint-Petersburg). The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir