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Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR, by Vadim Rogovin

By Andrea Peters, September 9, 2009

Vadim Rogovin’s Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR is a seminal study of the purges that wiped out the entire generation of Bolshevik leaders and socialist workers and in...

New from Mehring Books

Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR

Advance orders now being taken

June 1, 2009

Mehring Books is now taking advance orders for the first English translation of Stalin’s Terror of 1937- 1938: Political Genocide in the USSR, by the late Russian Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin. Th...

“He was a revolutionary in the absolute best sense of the word.”

70th anniversary meeting honors the life and work of Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin

By our correspondent, May 14, 2007

May 10 marked what would have been the 70th birthday of the Russian Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin, who died in September 1998 after a years-long battle with cancer. A mem...

"The End is the Beginning" completes series on socialist opposition to Stalinism in the USSR

Final volume of ground-breaking history presented at tribute to Vadim Rogovin

By our own correspondent, July 9, 2002

The seventh and final volume of “Was There an Alternative to Stalinism” by Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Z. Rogovin was presented on May 15 at the Moscow Institute for the Develo...

A tribute to Vadim Rogovin: "A passion for historical truth"

By Galina Rogovina-Valuzhenich, June 20, 2002

Galina Rogovina-Valuzhenich, the widow of Russian Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin, spoke at a May 15 meeting in Moscow to commemorate what would have been the sixty-fifth b...

A Tribute to Vadim Rogovin

By David North, May 20, 2002

At a meeting held in Moscow on May 15, more than 75 people commemorated what would have been the 65th birthday of the Russian Marxist historian and sociologist, Vadim Z. Rogovin. Among those attending...

1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror By Vadim Z. Rogovin – Introduction

December 29, 1998

Once upon a time, unintentionally, And probably hazarding a guess, Hegel called the historian a prophet Predicting in reverse. B. Pasternak

Social inequality, bureaucracy and the betrayal of socialism in the Soviet Union

By Vadim Rogovin, December 29, 1998

This lecture was delivered by Professor Vadim Rogovin at the Ruhr University in Germany in December 1996.

An introduction to a groundbreaking new book and its author

1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror

By Vadim Rogovin

December 29, 1998

Mehring Books is pleased to announce publication of 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror by Vadim Z. Rogovin (584 pages, ISBN 0-929087-77-1, $US 29.95 plus shipping - available online).

Leon Trotsky and the Fate of Marxism in the USSR

December 29, 1998

This lecture was delivered by Professor Vadim Rogovin at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, on June 3, 1996

1937: Stalin's Year of Terror By Vadim Z. Rogovin – Table of Contents

December 29, 1998

Table of contents for 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror, by Vadim Z. Rogovin.

1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror By Vadim Z. Rogovin

Chapter 1: Preparations for the First Show Trial

December 29, 1998

Stalin fell far short of achieving his goals with the trials that followed Kirov’s murder. The immediate organizers of the murder were declared to be a group of thirteen young