Prison Dossier
Left Oppositionists in a Russian Prison: Introduction to Three Documents
In early 2018, workers repairing a prison in Russia discovered under one cell’s floorboards a number of documents that had been written by members of the Trotskyist Left Opposition (they called themselves “Bolshevist-Leninists”) imprisoned there in 1932–3. At that time, the prison was run by Stalin’s political police. These “Notebooks of the Verkhneuralsk Political Prison” […]
Scott Cooper
June 21, 2020
[Dossier] “The Crisis of the Revolution and the Tasks of the Proletariat” (previously unpublished)
NOTE: This is the third of three linked documents on Left Oppositionists in a Russian Prison. The brief introductory reading guide is here. The political introduction to the series of three is here. An academic article explaining the origin of the prison text is here. We present, for the first time in English, translated from […]
Left Voice
January 1, 1917
[Dossier] The Struggle of the Trotskyists in the Soviet Union: An Alternative to Stalinism
NOTE: This is the first of three linked documents on Left Oppositionists in a Russian Prison. The brief introductory reading guide is here. An academic article explaining the origin of the prison text is here. The final document — the text from the imprisoned Left Oppositionists in the 1930s — is here. This year is […]
Guillermo Iturbide
January 1, 1917
[Dossier] The Soviet Left Opposition and the Discovery of the Verkhneuralsk Prison Booklets
NOTE: This is the second of three linked documents on Left Oppositionists in a Russian Prison. The brief introductory reading guide is here. The political introduction to the series of three is here. The final document –— the text from the imprisoned Left Oppositionists in the 1930s — is here. In this article, historian Aleksandr […]
Aleksandr Fokin
January 1, 1917