Leon Trotsky He was a mass murderer, not the true champion of the working class. By Clive James Posted Monday, April 2, 2007, at 7:06 AM ET Under a totalitarian regime it is the apparatus that implements the dictatorship. But if my hirelings are occupying all the key posts in the apparatus, how is it that Stalin is in the Kremlin and I am in exile? —Leon Trotsky, quoted by Dmitri Volkogonov in Stalin After being murdered at Stalin's orders, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, alias Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), lived on for decades as the unassailable hero of aesthetically minded progressives who...