Vadim Z. Rogovin
Defending historical truth
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...
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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


