Vadim Z. Rogovin

Roy Medvedev (1925–2026): A critical assessment

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:27:46 GMT

A critical assessment of Soviet dissident historian Roy Medvedev (1925–2026), examining both his courageous exposure of Stalinist crimes in Let History Judge and the political limitations that led him from reform-minded dissent to support for the Putin regime.

Political genocide in the USSR (1936-1940): The Moscow Trials and the Dewey Commission

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:41:34 GMT

This is the first part of the lecture “Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940)” delivered by Fred Williams, Katja Rippert, and Alejandro Lopez to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.

Mehring Yayıncılık publishes Turkish edition of Vadim Rogovin’s 1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:26:33 GMT

Mehring Yayıncılık is pleased to announce the publication of the Turkish edition of 1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror by Vadim Z. Rogovin.

This week in history: September 18-24

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 20:48:59 GMT

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.

Historical falsification and the struggle for socialism

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:27:23 GMT

In this work, Soviet historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin (1937–1998) explodes the myth, shared by both anti-communists and Stalinists alike, that Stalinism evolved naturally and seamlessly out of Bolshevism.

Greetings to Vadim Rogovin in Moscow on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Wed, 27 May 2020 05:41:47 GMT

In May 1997, David North, delivered the following greetings on behalf of the International Committee of the Fourth International to Vadim Rogovin in Moscow on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

A magnificent account of Stalin’s opponents in the USSR

Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:00:00 GMT

Stalin’s rise was neither foreordained nor a natural outgrowth of the October Revolution. The Great Russian chauvinist and bureaucrat secured power in ferocious conflict with the proletariat, peasantry and cadre of the revolutionary socialist movement.

Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition—Translator’s Foreword

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:00:00 GMT

During its Holiday Sale, Mehring Books is offering this volume at a sharply reduced price of $15 for the black and white version or $20 for the color version.

Author’s introduction to Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 05:00:00 GMT

Today we present the Introduction, written by the late Marxist historian and sociologist, Vadim Z. Rogovin, to the new English translation of the second volume of his seven-volume work, Was There an Alternative to Stalinism?

In memory of Vadim Z. Rogovin

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 05:00:00 GMT

In this 1998 tribute to Vadim Z. Rogovin, David North explains what made this Soviet historian a remarkable “prophet of historical truth.”

Twenty years since the death of Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 05:00:00 GMT

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Vadim Rogovin, we republish two tributes to the greatest Soviet and Russian Marxist sociologist and historian of the second half of the twentieth century.

Defending historical truth

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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 intellectuals who led the October 1917 Revolution.

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

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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. The book is being published in both cloth and paperback and will be available by the end of the month.

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

Mon, 14 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT

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 memorial service and book presentation honoring his life and work was held on Friday, May 11, at his former place of work, the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

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

Tue, 09 Jul 2002 05:00:00 GMT

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 Development of the Press. The meeting was organised by Vadim’s widow, Galina Rogovina-Valuzhenich, and was timed to commemorate what would have been Vadim’s sixty-fifth birthday.

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

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 05:00:00 GMT

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 birthday of her husband, who died in September 1998. Also attending the meeting were surviving children of Russian Left Oppositionists murdered by the Stalinist regime, scholars who worked with Vadim at the Institute of Sociology in Moscow, representatives from several socialist tendencies in Russia and many friends. David North, editorial board chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, delivered the principal address on the significance of Vadim’s life and work. Galina Rogovina’s remarks are reprinted below.

A Tribute to Vadim Rogovin

Mon, 20 May 2002 05:00:00 GMT

These remarks were delivered at a meeting held in Moscow on May 15, 2002, on what would have been the 65th birthday of the Soviet Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin, who died on September 18, 1998. Among those attending the gathering were surviving children of Russian Left Oppositionists murdered by the Stalinist regime, scholars who worked with Vadim at the Institute of Sociology in Moscow, the representatives of several socialist tendencies in Russia and many friends.

Chapter 1: Preparations for the First Show Trial

Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT

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 "Zinovievists," shot in December 1934 during the case of the so-called "Leningrad Center."

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

Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT

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

Leon Trotsky and the Fate of Marxism in the USSR

Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT

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 – Introduction

Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT

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

Stalin’s Great Terror: Origins and Consequences

Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT

This lecture was delivered by Professor Vadim Rogovin at the University of Melbourne in Australia on May 28, 1996.

1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror

Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT

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).

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

Tue, 29 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT

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

In memory of Vadim Z. Rogovin

Tue, 15 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT

The International Committee of the Fourth International held meetings in Berlin, on December 5, and London, on December 12, 1998, to commemorate the life of Vadim Z. Rogovin. David North addressed the meetings in London and Berlin. These are the remarks he delivered.

Vadim Rogovin buried in Moscow

Tue, 06 Oct 1998 05:00:00 GMT

More than three dozen people gathered at the Moscow Crematorium September 21 to mourn the passing of Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin, Russian Marxist historian and sociologist and author of a six-volume study of the Trotskyist opposition to the rise of the Stalinist regime within the Soviet Union. Rogovin died of cancer on September 18. He was 61 years old.

Vadim Rogovin: 1937-1998

Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:00:00 GMT

Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin, the Russian Marxist historian and sociologist, and author of a monumental six-volume study of the Trotskyist opposition to the rise of the Stalinist regime within the USSR, died of cancer early Friday morning in Moscow. He was 61 years old.

Book by Vadim Rogovin now available on tape

Thu, 16 Jul 1998 05:00:00 GMT

1937: Stalin's Year of Terror has been made available for people who are unable to read the printed book.