The Collapse of the USSR
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After the August Putsch: Where Is the USSR Going?
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 MoreRegular Price: $2.95
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What Is Happening in the USSR: Gorbachev and the Crisis of Stalinism
This pamphlet contains a statement by the world Trotskyist movement analyzing the policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost reform program. Learn MoreRegular Price: $2.00
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The USSR and Socialism: The Trotskyist Perspective
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 MoreRegular Price: $3.00
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A Tribute to Vadim Rogovin
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 MoreRegular Price: $2.00
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Stalinism in Eastern Europe: The Rise and Fall of the GDR
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 MoreRegular Price: $5.00
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Solidarity in Poland 1980-81 and the Perspective of Political Revolution
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 MoreRegular Price: $11.95
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Perestroika Versus Socialism: Stalinism and the Restoration of Capitalism in the USSR
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 MoreRegular Price: $7.95
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Fourth International Journal V. 16 Nos. 3-4: On the Political Revolution in East Germany
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Fourth International Journal V. 15 No. 2: The Soviet Union Repudiates Moscow Trials
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