Robert S. Wistrich

Trotsky’s Jewish Question

Seventy years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky — the arch-heretic of international communism and symbol (for his admirers) of Bolshevik revolutionary purity — was struck down in Mexico City by a Stalinist assassin’s axe. Trotsky, an architect of the 1917 October Revolution and, subsequently, the creator of the Red Army, which he led…