Moscow Trials and Great Terror
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1937: Stalin's Year of Terror
A major work of original historical research, 1937 provides a detailed and penetrating analysis of the causes and consequences of Stalin's purges. The author, an eminent Russian Marxist historian, argues that it is impossible to understand these tragic events apart from Stalin's determination to wipe out all vestiges of the socialist opposition to his regime, above all, that associated with Leon Trotsky. Learn MoreRegular Price: $24.95
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Was There an Alternative to Stalinism in the USSR?
In these two essays Russian Marxist Historian Vadim Rogovin refutes the claim that the rise of Stalinism in the USSR was the inexorable product of the October Revolution. He demonstrates that there existed a strong movement led by Leon Trotsky which offered a realistic alternative to Stalinism and that a struggle against this movement was the primary function of the Stalinist terror.
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The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR (The 1920s & 1930s)
Yakhot describes the flourishing of philosophical discussion in the newly-established Soviet Union, and its subsequent destruction by Stalin. Rare among works dealing with this period, this is an objective account of the theoretical role of the major figures in the early Soviet Union, including that of Leon Trotsky, co-leader with Lenin of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. Originally published in Russian in 1981, this unique history of early Soviet philosophy is now available for the first time in English, translated by Frederick Choate. Learn MoreRegular Price: $24.95
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Stalin's Terror Bundle
The Stalin’s Terror Bundle includes writings by Russian Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin on the Great Terror. Rogovin demonstrates that the purges of 1937-1938 were aimed at exterminating all those who had any connection to the socialist traditions of the 1917 Revolution. Learn MoreRegular Price: $40.00
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Two Lectures: Stalin's Great Terror and Leon Trotsky and the Fate of Marxism in the USSR
In 1996, Russian Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin traveled to Australia to deliver these lectures. Rogovin's central thesis is that there was and remains a Marxist alternative to Stalinism. He demonstrates that Stalin's Great Terror was not the irrational response of a paranoid tyrant, but was precipitated by the need of the Stalinist bureaucracy to eradicate the growing socialist opposition to its rule, led by Trotsky and the Left Opposition. Learn MoreRegular Price: $9.95
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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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Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR (paperback)
This volume examines the bloodiest period of the Stalinist repression of political opposition in the Soviet Union, debunking the myth that the Great Purges were merely the product of Stalin's paranoia and had no overriding political logic. Learn MoreRegular Price: $24.95
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Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR (cloth bound)
This volume examines the bloodiest period of the Stalinist repression of political opposition in the Soviet Union, debunking the myth that the Great Purges were merely the product of Stalin's paranoia and had no overriding political logic. Learn MoreRegular Price: $39.95
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The Revolution Betrayed
In the annals of political literature, few works have withstood the test of time so well as Leon Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed. More than 70 years after its initial publication, its analysis of the structure and dynamics of Soviet society and of the Soviet Union remains unsurpassed. Learn MoreRegular Price: $14.95
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The Red Book
Written in 1936 by Trotsky's eldest son and closest political collaborator, this book was a meticulous exposure of the first Moscow Trial ("Trial of the Sixteen") organized by Stalin to justify the liquidation of the surviving leaders of the October Revolution. Learn MoreRegular Price: $14.95
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