This book contains articles and speeches written by Trotsky against the Soviet secret police between the raid on Trotsky's house in Coyoàcan, Mexico on May 24, 1940, and his assassination on August 20. Major articles include: "Stalin Seeks My Death" and "The Comintern and the GPU." Learn More

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. Through a meticulous examination of original sources, including archival documents only made available for research in the 1990s, Professor Vadim Rogovin argues that the ferocity of the mass repression was directly proportional to the intensity of resistance to Stalin within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), particularly the opposition inspired by and associated with the exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Learn More

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. Through a meticulous examination of original sources, including archival documents only made available for research in the 1990s, Professor Vadim Rogovin argues that the ferocity of the mass repression was directly proportional to the intensity of resistance to Stalin within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), particularly the opposition inspired by and associated with the exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Learn More

This lecture by Peter Schwarz, leader of the German Section of the ICFI, is one of seven delivered to the 1998 international symposium Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century by the International Committee of the Fourth International in Sydney, Australia. Learn More

American journalist John Reed's classic eyewitness acount the of October 1917 revolution in Russia. Learn More

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

A lively account of the stormy events leading to the October 1917 Russian Revolution, this book is a compelling read both for those with a developed knowledge of Russian history and those new to the subject. Learn More

Published on the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution, The Bolsheviks in Power by Alexander Rabinowitch, emeritus professor at Indiana University, is a significant work of historical scholarship. It will serve, for many years to come, as an essential reference point for the study of the political and social aftermath of the overthrow of the bourgeois Provisional Government and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime. In contrast to so many others working in the field of Soviet studies, who have adapted themselves to the prevailing climate of intellectual dishonesty and cynicism, Professor Rabinowitch has not compromised his integrity as a scholar. Learn More

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 marked the culmination of the betrayal by the Stalinist bureaucracy of the October 1917 revolution in Russia. In this statement David North draws the implications of this event for the international working class. Learn More