Vadim Z. Rogovin

Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928–1933; Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition

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Rogovin traces the inner-party struggles of 1928-1933, utilizing official documents; speeches and articles of the time; Soviet archival material; memoirs of participants in contemporary political life; and documents by oppositionists in various groups that were unknown to Soviet readers for many decades.

Available in two formats: with some illustrations in color or all illustrations in black and white.

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This is the second in a seven-volume series by the Russian Marxist historian, Vadim Rogovin, on the history of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1940. Rogovin traces the inner-party struggles of 1928-1933, utilizing contemporaneous official documents; speeches and articles; Soviet archival material; memoirs of participants in political life; and documents by oppositionists in groups that were unknown to Soviet readers for many decades.

The Left Opposition, led by Leon Trotsky, offered the most principled Marxist opposition to Stalinism, even as its members were being hounded into exile and imprisonment. Less known opposition groups, such
as the Riutin group, are systematically presented. Rogovin analyzes the devastating impact of Stalinism on the Comintern. The alternative to Stalinism offered by the Left Opposition is presented chapter by chapter
in this richly illustrated work. An appendix includes brief biographies of many oppositionists.

Available in two formats: with some illustrations in color or all illustrations in black and white.

Vadim Z. Rogovin (1937-1998) wrote about social inequality in the USSR and its implications for social justice, labor productivity, and social morality in Soviet society. Gaining access to Left Opposition writings in the 1960s and 1970s, he became convinced of the correctness of Leon Trotsky’s opposition to Stalin. In the 1990s, he wrote a seven-volume series on the rise of Stalinism and the history of the socialist-based opposition to Stalin’s rule.

Rogovin worked in the field of literary and aesthetic criticism, before becoming 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. His interest in researching the allocation of wealth and privileges in the Soviet Union grew out of political conclusions he drew about the origins of the Soviet bureaucracy. His grandfather had died in the Stalinist purges.

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. His articles in the popular Soviet press about the positions of the Left Opposition on major questions of politics and policy were widely read.

In the early 1990s, he began 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 in Europe, the United States, Australia, and Latin America, in a world tour organized by the International Committee of the Fourth International.

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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