The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York City.

Its principal objective has been to discredit Leon Trotsky as a significant historical figure, to deny that Trotsky represented an alternative to Stalinism, or that his political legacy contains ...

Lev Bronshtein, whom history and the world would know as Leon Trotsky, is at the center of Robert Littell's new novel, "Bronshtein In The Bronx," set in the 10 weeks that the Russian revolutionary ...

In January 1917, a few weeks before the overthrow of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, Leon Trotsky came to New York. The socialist revolutionary was then in his late 30s and for the previous decade ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Robert Littell about Leon Trotsky's time living in the Bronx. Littell is the author of "Bronshtein in the Bronx." Search Query Show Search ...