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

A major work of original historical research, 1937 provides a detailed and penetrating analysis of the causes and consequences of Stalin's purges. Learn More

David King's "Red Star Over Russia" presents over 550 photographs, posters and works of art illustrating the history of Russia from 1917 through 1953. Much of the material covering the October Revolution, Civil War and Great Terror is published for the first time. The accompanying text provides a clear historical background needed to understand the graphic material. Learn More

Trotsky subjects Stalin's accusations at the Moscow Trials to withering attack. The text of this speech was prepared for a 1937 mass rally at the Hippodrome in New York City which Trotsky planned to address by telephone hookup. At the last minute the phone connection was disrupted, so the text was read aloud to the audience of 6,600. Learn More

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 More

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

Writing in 1936, Schactman thoroughly exposed Stalin's first great frame-up trial at which the Soviet bureaucracy began the physical destruction of the entire Bolshevik old guard. Learn More

This is the only memoir to be written in the post-Stalin Soviet Union by a member of the Left Opposition, which was formed under the leadership of Leon Trotsky in 1923. Nadezhda Joffe was the daughter of Adolf Abramovich Joffe, the Bolshevik leader and Left Oppositionist who committed suicide in 1927 to protest the expulsion of Trotsky from the Bolshevik Party. Learn More