Leon Trotsky
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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...
Lecture 2
“Socialism in One Country” and the Soviet economic debates of the 1920s—Part 2
By Nick Beams, May 7, 2009
This is the second of two lectures delivered at an SEP summer school in August 2007 that deal with some of the crucial conflicts over economic policy in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
Part three
By Bill Van Auken, April 17, 2009
There is perhaps no part of the political and theoretical heritage left by Trotsky that has been the object of more sustained and diverse attacks and revisions on the part of the centrists than the co...
The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
Part one
By Bill Van Auken, April 15, 2009
The five years between Trotsky’s call for the Fourth International in 1933 and the holding of a founding conference in 1938 were marked by a continuous struggle against a wide range of centrist poli...
The Revolution Betrayed and the fate of the Soviet Union
By Peter Daniels, February 26, 2009
An understanding the Russian Revolution and the Soviet state—their rise and subsequent degeneration—is critical in politically arming the working class by learning the lessons of the twentieth cen...
Leon Trotsky, Soviet Historiography, and the Fate of Classical Marxism
By David North, December 1, 2008
This paper was presented by David North at a panel on “The Intellectual and Political Legacy of Leon Trotsky” at the recent 2008 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement...
Sri Lankan university meeting discusses Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
By our correspondents, September 11, 2008
About 40 students, lecturers and university workers took part in a discussion at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka on August 27 on the book, Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsif...
Public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne to commemorate...
The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
September 9, 2008
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution established by Leon Trotsky in September 1938. The founding of the FI and the ...
A letter on academic ethics in response to David North’s “Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification”
July 17, 2007
The following letter was sent to the World Socialist Web Site in response to, “Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification: A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffre...
A letter from Professor Geoffrey Swain and a reply by David North
May 19, 2007
The World Socialist Web Site invited Professors Ian Thatcher and Geoffrey Swain to reply to David North’s critical review of their biographies of Leon Trotsky. (See “Leon Trotsky and the p...
Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 4: The relevance of Trotsky
By David North, May 12, 2007
Today we publish the first part of a four-part review of two biographies of Trotsky written by Professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian D. Thatcher. The first, second and third parts can be accessed here. Cl...
Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 3: The method of Ian Thatcher
By David North, May 11, 2007
Today we publish the first part of a four-part review of two biographies of Trotsky written by Professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian D. Thatcher. The first, second andfinal parts can be accessed here. Cli...
