Tag Archives: Trotsky

Lenin reading Pravda

The origins of Pravda, the official newspaper of Communist Russia

Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first published on 5 May 1912.

Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party

Why was Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party in 1927?

Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.