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

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 More

Written in 1988, this far-sighted document examines the globalization of the world economy and the mounting conflict of US, Japanese and European imperialism; the rapid growth of the countries of the Asian-Pacific Rim; and the significance of the process of capitalist restoration in China and the Soviet Union. Learn More

This book documents Trotsky's intervention in the political struggle with the Burnham-Shachtman tendency inside the US Socialist Workers Party, which was of fundamental importance for the Fourth International. Learn More

This pamphlet reviews the record of American oppression of Haiti from the invasion of US Marines in 1915 through the bloody rein of “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc” up to the tragic events of November 29, 1987 when thugs loyal to the US-backed regime of General Henri Namphy killed scores of unarmed Haitians attempting to exercise their right to vote. Learn More

This book contains four articles by Trotsky devoted to fundamental problems of the revolutionary movement. Learn More

The February Perspectives features analyses of the Obama administration’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan and the growing demands by international finance capital for the introduction of savage austerity measures, including the important statement “Socialism and the Greek debt Crisis.”

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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 More

These writings by Leon Trotsky on the rise of fascism in Germany were aimed at changing the course of the German Communist Party (KPD). With a correct policy, this party would have been able to stop the rise of National Socialism and prevent Hitler’s victory. They represent a vital contribution to Marxism. Learn More