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Samizdat; voices of the Soviet opposition. (reprint, 1974)

Samizdat ("self-publishing") was the term coined by Soviet dissidents to refer to the circulation of uncensored material privately, including nonconformist poetry and fiction, memoirs, historical documents, protest statements, trial records, and more. This volume collects and presents in English a range of samizdat materials, focusing on materials from the 1960s and afterwards produced by dissident Marxists extolling the lost revolutionary tradition of the original Bolsheviks, protesting and exposing the depredations of the rule of Josef Stalin, and advocating for the development of socialist democracy in the Soviet Union. This is a paperbound edition of a work first published in 1974. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Teamster rebellion, 2d ed. (reprint, 2004)

First published in 1972, this is the first of a four-volume series on the labor battles of the Teamsters Local 574 in Minnesota in the 1930s by Farrell Dobbs, a key figure in the events described and later a central leader of the Socialist Workers Party. The focus of the narrative in this volume is on the victorious Minneapolis General Strike of 1934, a catalyst in the historic rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and on the lessons of the strike for labor and political organizing. Also available in Spanish, French, Swedish, and Farsi editions. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1935-36. (reprint, 1977)

Part of a 12 volume set chronologically reproducing the writings of communist leader and theorist Leon Trotsky during the years of exile from 1929 to 1940, this volume collects writings from his months in Norway in 1935-36, many appearing in English for the first time when the volume was first published, not including those writings already in print in books and pamphlets. Much of the material in this volume concerns Trotsky's efforts to form an international communist organization called the Fourth International, a key concern of this period following Trotsky's abandonment of efforts to reform the Comintern, as well as increasing Stalinist repression in the Soviet Union, which was to come to head with the beginning of the Moscow show trials in August 1936. This is a paperbound edition of a work first published in 1977. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929. (reprint, 1975)

Chronologically, this is the first of 12 volumes collecting writings of communist leader Leon Trotsky covering the period of his exile in 1929 to his assassination in Mexico City in 1940, which purports to complete (together with other publications of the exile period) the availability in English of everything written by Trotsky and published in any language during the exile years. This volume contains works, penned between February and December of 1929, that reflect his political objectives in these months, which according to the preface were to circulate his version of the struggle inside the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist International from 1923 and 1929; to counter tendencies among the Russian Left Opposition to surrender to Stalinism; and to promote the consolidation of various oppositional groups into an international faction of the Communist International. This is a paperbound edition of a work first published in 1975 (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)