1937: Stalin's Year of Terror

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

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

The author, an eminent Russian Marxist historian, argues that it is impossible to understand these tragic events apart from Stalin's determination to wipe out all vestiges of the socialist opposition to his regime, above all, that associated with Leon Trotsky.

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Author	Vadim Rogovin
Publisher	Mehring Books
Publication Date	1998
Pages	528
Publication Type	Paperback
ISBN	978-0-929087-77-1

Chapter	Page
Foreword	ix
Introduction	xi
1. Preparations for the First Show Trial	1
2. The Trial of the Sixteen	14
3. "Thirst for Power" or "Restoration of Capitalism"?	26
4. "The Molotov Affair"	30
5. Results of a "Rotten Compromise"	36
6. Political Repercussions of the Trial of the Sixteen	40
7. Trotsky Interned	46
8. Leon Sedov's Red Book	52
9. Ten Percent of the Truth, or What Really Happened	60
10. Candidate Defendants at Future Trials	67
11. From Charges of Terror to New Amalgams	83
12. The Beginning of the Yezhov Period	87
13. The Kemerovo Trial	96
14. The December Plenum of the Central Committee	98
15. The Trial of the "Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center	*113*
16. Trotsky Returns to Battle	*130*
17. Trotsky on the Goals of the Moscow Trials	*139*
18. A Tyrant's Revenge	*147*
19. The Anti-Semitic Subtext of the Moscow Trials	*154*
20. Why Did They Confess?	*164*
21. Bukharin and Rykov in the Clutches of a "Party Investigation"	*179*
22. The Death of Ordzhonikidze	*185*
23. Two Letters from Bukharin	*199*
24. Prelude to the February-March Plenum	*203*
25. The February-March Plenum: Bukharin and Rykov Stand Accused	*210*
26. Bukharin and Rykov Defend Themselves	*223*
27. The Plenum Delivers its Verdict	*227*
28. The Fate of the "Letter of an Old Bolshevik"	*231*
29. The February-March Plenum: Questions of Party Democracy	*239*
30. The February-March Plenum on Sabotage	*247*
31. Why Did Stalin Need "Sabotage"?	*263*
32. The NKVD Stands Accused	*276*
33. The February-March Plenum on "Party Work"	*281*
34. Stalin Issues Directives	*286*
35. The Election Campaign in the Party	*298*
36. The Dewey Commission	*305*
37. Trotsky in the Curved Mirror of Anti-Communism	*310*
38. Trotsky on Bolshevism and Stalinism	*312*
39. The Hunting Down of Trotskyists Abroad	*323*
40. The Breakthrough and Death of Ignace Reiss	*327*
41. "Stay Out of Range of the Artillery Fire!"	*335*
42. Trotsky on the Spanish Revolution	*349*
43. The Barcelona Uprising	*357*
44. Trotskyists in the Camps	*374*
45. "The Bureaucracy Is Terrorized"	*393*
46. Reasons for Reprisals against the Generals	*400*
47. Prelude to the Purge of the Army	*411*
48. The Stalin-Hitler Provocation	*416*
49. Preparing the Trial of the Generals	*425*
50. The Trial of the Generals	*441*
51. Looking Ahead Fifteen Years	*448*
52. Was There a Military Conspiracy?	*458*
53. The Ballad of General Orlov	*465*
54. The Secret of the Tukhachevsky Affair	*470*
55. The June Plenum of the Central Committee	*483*
Notes	*501*
Name Index	*519*
Subject Index	*537*

Vadim Rogovin (1937-1998) was a Doctor of Philosophical Sciences at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow from the late 1970s until his death. Prior to this he had worked in the field of literary and aesthetic criticism. As a researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Rogovin studied and wrote about the existence and growth of social inequality in the USSR and its implications for social justice, labor productivity, and social morality in Soviet society. Rogovin’s interest in analyzing the allocation of wealth and privileges in the Soviet Union grew out of political conclusions he drew about the origins of the Soviet bureaucracy. After having quietly gained access to some of the writings of the Left Opposition during the 1960s and 1970s, Rogovin, whose own grandfather had died in the purges, became convinced of the correctness of Leon Trotsky’s opposition to Stalin. In the late 1980s, he became an outspoken critic of Mikhail Gorbachev’s pro-market economic reforms and their negative impact on the living standards of the broad mass of the population. After writing articles in the popular Soviet press about the positions of the Left Opposition on major questions of politics and policy, Rogovin started publishing what would become a seven-volume series on the rise of Stalinism and the history of the socialist-based opposition to Stalin’s rule. Before his untimely death due to cancer in 1998, he delivered lectures on this theme to audiences in Europe, the United States, Australia, and Latin America. Additional biographical information about Rogovin and commentary about his contributions can be found here, in a tribute given to him on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday by David North, the Chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site.

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