Russia and Soviet Union
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Why Study the Russian Revolution Vol II: Towards Workers Power and World Socialist Revolution
The 1917 Russian Revolution was the most significant event of the 20th century. The taking of power by the Russian working class under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky transformed the course of human history and reverberates to this day. Between February and October 1917 Russia was shaken by two monumental revolutions. The first overthrew the Romanov aristocracy that had ruled for more than 300 years. The second overthrew the bourgeois Provisional Government and established the first socialist workers state in history. These events continue to generate debate and controversy. The essays in this volume, the second of two, are unique in that they are written from a Marxist perspective looking back from the vantage point of 100 years and putting the events of 1917 in a contemporary perspective under conditions of a world wracked by immense social and political contradictions. Learn More$15.95 -
What is to be Done?
One of the most important works of political theory ever written. Opposing the Russian Economists, who were generally indifferent to questions of theory, Lenin argued that "only a party that is guided by the most advanced revolutionary theory" will be able to provide the working class with revolutionary leadership. Learn MoreRegular Price: $7.50
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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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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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Trotskyism vs. Stalinism
This pamphlet contains a speech given by David North in 1987 on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. It reviews the history of Trotsky's struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. Learn MoreRegular Price: $2.00
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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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Terrorism and Communism
Writing in 1920 aboard his military train in the midst of the Civil War, Trotsky defended the Bolsheviks' revolutionary measures against Karl Kautsky, the German renegade from Marxism and opponent of Soviet power. Learn More$16.95 -
Ten Days that Shook the World
American journalist John Reed's classic eyewitness account of the October 1917 revolution in Russia. Learn More$18.00 -
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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