Two Lectures: Stalin's Great Terror: Origins and Consequences: Leon Trotsky and the Fate of Marxism in the USSR

by Vadim Z. Rogovin

In 1996, Russian Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin traveled to Australia to deliver these lectures. Rogovin's central thesis is that there was and remains a Marxist alternative to Stalinism. He demonstrates that Stalin's Great Terror was not the irrational response of a paranoid tyrant, but was precipitated by the need of the Stalinist bureaucracy to eradicate the growing socialist opposition to its rule, led by Trotsky and the Left Opposition.

Genres: History

46 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Russian Trotskyist Historian.

He is most known for "Was There An Alternative?" a 7-volume study of Stalin era between 1923 and 1940, with an emphasis on the Trotskyist opposition.

He was considered the leading one among Trotskyist Soviet historians emerging after Perestroika.