Who says young people aren’t politically motivated? From New York to Oakland, the men and women of the Occupy movement have put their comfort and their safety on the line to demand, um, a whole lot of ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...

From this grab-bag of disciples, it is easy to see Trotskyism and Trotsky as eccentric, alien influences. The man himself ...

If "Norma Rae" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" had a child, you've got to think it would probably be a lot like "The Trotsky, " a smart -- if overlong -- indie teen comedy opening tonight at the ...

The Trotsky poses the question: What’s a young dissident to do in our postmodern world of iPods and Facebook, especially if he’s a teenaged rebel without a cause? The film also answers the question: ...

This was an unexpected surprise today! Our friends at Quiet Earth have dug up the first trailer for Jacob Tierney's The Trotsky starring Jay Baruchel. This comedy, set in Montreal, follows a teen who ...

One always hopes for the best when a movie deals with a major historical figure, yet few manage to illuminate their subjects in a meaningful way. The Trotsky, released last month across Canada ...

A privileged Montreal teen believes he's the reincarnation of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and acts accordingly in high-concept teen comedy. Sharing his radical hero’s birth name, Leon Bronstein ...

As funny as an ax to the head, the Canadian comedy “The Trotsky” rolls through its brash, too-clever take on high school outsiderdom — a 17-year-old Montrealite (Jay Baruchel) who believes he’s the ...

Sixty-seven years after his murder, Leon Trotsky’s detractors are still swinging their ice axes at his head. If he were alive today, writes Sandy Irvine in the current issue of the Marxist discussion ...

Every news story about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall seemed to include one of the signature images of the era -- a statue of Soviet founder V.I. Lenin abandoned on a junk heap.