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

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

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

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

ISSN: 0015 9204 Learn More

ISSN: 0015 9204 Learn More

This book contains the preliminary report on the investigation conducted by the International Committee of the Fourth International into the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico on August 20, 1940. The investigation, launched in 1975, uncovered long concealed evidence of the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by the Soviet secret police (GPU). It exposed the role of Joseph Hansen, then leader of the US Socialist Workers Party, as a double agent of the FBI and GPU. 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

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) – the leader of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s unyielding opponent – remains an immensely controversial figure seventy years after his assassination in Mexico City. In this penetrating analysis and comprehensive refutation of three recently-published biographies of Leon Trotsky by well-known British historians -- Professors Robert Service, Ian Thatcher and Geoffrey Swain -- David North raises troubling questions about the state of contemporary historical
scholarship.

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