Introductory notes
The subject of this chapter of our TrotskyanaNet site is not the Trotskyist press in general, i.e. the serials (or, periodicals) produced and disseminated by the numerous national parties and groups or international bodies claiming adherence to Trotsky and/or to Trotskyist positions in past and present. Those publications were dealt with in our Trotskyist Serials Bibliography compiled around 1990 and published in print format in 1993.
In this chapter we provide features about a small number of journals and a small selection of monographic series which are exclusively or principally devoted to studies on Trotsky and Trotskyism. Most of the featured serials were (or are still) issued by those research centres and working archives presented also on TrotskyanaNet. The journal/series descriptions consist of essential bibliographic information, notes on publication history, on authors, subjects, availability, prices, etc.
It should be mentioned here that the contents of almost all journals and series mentioned below has been systematically analysed for our Trotsky database from which we generate our Leon Trotsky Bibliography, in which are listed some 400 items which appeared in Cahiers Léon Trotsky, some 300 which had appeared in Revolutionary History, some 70 from Dissidences-BLEMR (from 2005 called Dissidences) and some 30 from Journal of Trotsky Studies. This alone demonstrates the very relevance of all those journals as top sources and goldmines of information with regard to Trotsky(ism) research.
W. Lubitz, 2005
last rev. Aug. 2009
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