The Collapse of the USSR

In August 1991 elements within the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union staged an abortive coup attempt. This pamphlet contains an analysis of these historic events. Learn More

In November 1989 Workers League National Secretary David North traveled to the Soviet Union on behalf of the International Committee of the Fourth International. This pamphlet contains the text of a lecture presented at the Historical Archival Institute in Moscow as well as the text of discussions held with Soviet students and journalists. Learn More

Tribute to Russian Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin delivered by David North, chairman of the editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site in 1998 in Berlin. Rogovin died in 1998 at the age of 61, after completing six volumes of a seven-volume history of the political conflicts within the Communist Party of the USSR and the Communist International between 1922 and 1940. Learn More

In this pamphlet Peter Schwarz outlines the post-war historical origins of the Stalinist bloc in Eastern Europe and its collapse in 1989. The bourgeoisie and ex-bureaucrats usurped the mass uprisings that took place at the time, brutally restoring capitalist regimes. In this lecture, originally given in 1998, Schwarz discusses the political and historical questions of the nature of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the broader role of Stalinism in Eastern Europe. Learn More

This book traces the historical and social origins, the international context and the unfolding of the struggle of the Polish working class in 1980-81. Learn More

Insightful analysis of the policies of Gorbachev from a Marxist perspective that anticipate the collapse of the USSR. Makes the case that glasnost and perestroika represented not the reform of socialism but the culmination of the Stalinist betrayal of the October revolution. Learn More

ISSN: 0015 9204 Learn More

ISSN: 0015 9204 Learn More

ISSN: 0015 9204 Learn More