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Revolutionary History
[ISSN 0953-2382]

Revolutionary History (RH, for short) was set up in 1988 by Socialist Platform Ltd., an independent socialist publishing venture located in London. Revolutionary History is a magazine dealing with the history of the revolutionary socialist movement and its protagonists, from a chiefly Trotskyist viewpoint, not belonging to or supporting any of the existing currents within the British and international Trotskyist movement. All socialist tendencies and individuals are welcome to support RH and to send a representative to its editorial board.

Revolutionary History in a way has been the English-language counterpart of the French Cahiers Léon Trotsky from which RH has taken several articles, thus making them available to non-francophone readers. It is a distinguished scholarly journal, featuring well-researched and meticulously annotated articles and documents chiefly appearing – at least in English language – for the very first time.

The journal appears roughly once to twice a year, designated by volume and number (for details see below). The format changed several times (for details see below); the average number of pages per issue raised during the last years to some 320 pp. Each issue of RH focuses on a specific subject and bears a distinct title, thus standing as a book in its own (many issues are bearing an ISBN additionally to the ISSN). However, regular columns are also provided, in almost all issues: editorial, work(s) in progress, reviews (altogether more than 300), letters, obituaries (also appreciations, biographical sketches, vignettes), and of course errata; furthermore, most issues are containing also reader’s notes, i.e. short and partially annotated bibliographical informations relating to articles on various aspects of socialist history, obituaries etc. recently published in the socialist and in the mainstream bourgeois press.

Revolutionary History is a very valuable and quite unique source of information for people looking for thorough and alternative explanations and background information relating to the repeated - often disastrous - defeats suffered by the twentieth century working-class movement. In this context RH’s motto should be mentioned: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. One of the main purposes of Revolutionary History is to write back into the historical records the (often forgotten, neglected or suppressed) fact that there were always small (and often too tiny) groups of  devoted and courageous men and women who fought to the best of their abilities for alternative strategies which could have result in a different outcome. Thus Revolutionary History has exhaustively presented the viewpoints and analyses of various non-Stalinist and non-reformist left minority groups and individuals with regard to the Spanish popular front strategy or in view of the rise of Hitlerism and the Second World War, to mention only a few examples. The material about these topics presented on the pages of RH includes recent results of scholarly research as well as English translations of contemporaneous documents, long unavailable or never before published archival material, eye-witness accounts, etc. RH not at all confines itself to a narrow definition of Trotskyism, but has opened its pages to writings by and about other (non-Trotskyist) authentic anti-Stalinist and anti-reformist revolutionaries and theoreticians, such as for example Victor Serge.

Thanks to the non-sectarian and independent editorial policy of Revolutionary History, its  readers are profiting from the absence of being confronted with a history of Trotskyism lapsing into esoteric and trivial narratives of never-ending splits, denunciations, expulsions and apostolic succession struggles unfortunately characterizing many of those small groups isolated from any real class struggles.

The editorial board of Revolutionary History consists of a considerable number of renowned British (and some non-British) Trotskyist activists and left-wing historians, both academic and non-academic, some of them adhering to various tendencies and groups of the radical left, others lacking such an affiliation. The founder, editor/director and moving spirit of Revolutionary History was the late Al Richardson (1941-2003), an outstanding Marxist historian and revolutionary socialist scholar, whose life, work, and meaning has recently been appreciated in a long biographical essay by John McIlroy (in RH vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 3-18). Al Richardson was not only the editor of RH but at the same time the author of a very considerable portion of the book reviews, obituaries and reader’s notes published in RH.  When RH started some 20 years ago, the editorial board was composed of John Archer, Sam Bornstein, David Bruce, Keith Hassell, Ravi Jamieson, George Leslie, Sam Levy, Bruce Robinson and Ernest Rogers. Al Richardson was named as editor, Ted Crawford and Mike Howgate as deputy editors, Barry Buitekant functioned as business manager and Paul Flewers as production and design manager. As at Autumn 2005, the following persons have been mentioned: Al Richardson as founding editor, Ted Crawford, Paul Flewers and Esther Leslie forming the editorial coordinating team, John Plant functioning as reviews editor, Barry Buitekant as business manager, Fritz Keller and David Walters as continental and USA contributing editors, respectively; the editorial board consists of Toby Abse, Ian Birchall, Tony Borton, Mike Calvert, Clarence Chrysostom, Ian Donovan, Pete Glatter, Paul Hampton, Mike Jones, Stuart King, George Leslie, Sheila Leslie, John McIlroy, Dragan Plavsic, Jim Ring, David Renton, Alejandra Ríos, Bruno Simon, Cyril Smith, Martin Sullivan, and Andreja Zivkovic.

Revolutionary History maintains an excellent website; originally compiled by John Plant and Ted Crawford, now redesigned and developed by Alun Morgan, this contains also images of the covers and links to the online-versions of those articles which appeared in issues which are out-of-print; several dozen articles which could not be published in the printed volumes because of lack of space or other reasons are gathered here and are presented as HTML documents. Also, there is a small collection of articles and varia not originating from RH; last not least the RH website contains Material related to C.L.R. James, The history of British Trotskyism to 1949 (a PhD work by Martin Upham) and a Selection of historical materials from the socialist discussion journal What Next.

Single issues of RH (price: £ 14.95 as at 2009) can be ordered online from Merlin Press Ltd., London

Sources used:
- Revolutionary History’s WWW site
- Birchall, Ian: Revolutionary History, in: Newsletter / London Socialist Historians Group,  2001 (11),
   URL: http://www.londonsocialisthistorians.org/newsletter/articles.pl/read/37
- Richardson, Al: Saving our history from academics and sects : John McIlroy interviews Al Richardson, editor of the magazine Revolutionary History, in: Workers Liberty (London), 1995 (23), pp. 22-24.

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What follows is a short survey about the hitherto (as at Spring 2009) published volumes of Revolutionary History. For more details (and for links to articles which are available on-line) please consult the Revolutionary History website

Vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 1988). [No distinct title] Contents: chiefly contributions about British pre-war Trotskyist history; biographical items about Rudolf Klement and Paul Lafargue. Authors: Albert Glotzer, Harry Ratner, Harry Selby, Reg Groves, Sam Bornstein, Al Richardson, Sam Gordon, Ernest Rogers, Karl Kautsky, Pierre Broué et al. 28 pp. Format: A4.  [Out of print.]
Vol. 1, no. 2 (Summer 1988). The hidden history of the Spanish civil war. Contents: contributions about Stalinism and Spain, Trotsky and the POUM, the May Days in Barcelona 1937, etc.; memories and biographical sketches of Walter Held (Heinz Epe) and C. Frank Glass (Li Fu-jen); contemporaneous documents from the Spanish civil war (POUM documents, eye-witness reports, etc.), letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Baruch Hirson, Pierre Broué, Walter Held (Heinz Epe), Keith Hassell, Hugo Oehler, Kurt Landau, Paul Flewers, Nils-Kåre Dahl et al. 58 pp. Format: A4. [Out of print.]
Vol. 1, no. 3 (Autumn 1988) War and revolution in Europe 1939-1945. Contents: contributions about revolutionary defeatism, proletarian military policy, the Fourth International and Trotsky in view of the Second World War, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Jean-Paul Joubert, Sam Levy, Rodolphe Prager, Daniel Guérin et al. 50 pp. Format: A4. [Out of print.]
Vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1988/89) Against all odds: Dutch, French and Indian Trotskyism during the Second World War. Contents: contributions about the history of the Trotskyist movement in The Netherlands, France and India with focus on WW II, the Walter Held file (a series of letters on the fate of Walter Held=Heinz Epe), reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Wim Bot, Charles Wesley Ervin, Ian Birchall, Al Richardson, Ernest Rogers, Sam Levy et al. 50 pp. Format: A4. [Out of print.]
Vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 1989). Strikes & leadership - Trotskyists and major class struggles. Contents: contributions about the Renault strike of 1947 (with English translation of various original documents by Lutte Ouvrière, La Voix des Travailleurs, Parti Communiste Internationaliste ...) and about the Minneapolis teamster strike of 1934, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Pierre Bois, Ernest Rogers, Colvin R. de Silva et al. 50 pp. Format: A4. [Out of print.]
Vol. 2, no. 2 (Summer 1989). Nationalism, resistance and imperialist war - Trotskyism in Argentina and Scandinavia. Contents: contributions about Liborio Justo, the history of Trotskyism in Argentina and Denmark, Trotsky’s uphold in Norway 1935/36, obituaries of Grandizo Munis, Harry Wicks and C.L.R. James, a survey of recent works by and about Trotsky published in the USSR, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Osvaldo Coggiola, John Sullivan, Nils-Kåre Dahl, Børge Trolle, Ernest Rogers, Judith Shapiro, Bob Archer. 70 pp. Format: A4 [Out of print.]
Vol. 2, no. 3 (Autumn 1989). The German Left 1919 to 1935. Contents: contributions on the decline and decomposition of a leadership, the German Left and the Russian Opposition 1926-28, German Trotskyism in the 1930s, obituary of C.L.R. James, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Mike Jones, Pierre Broué, Wolfgang Alles, Anna Grimshaw et al. 54 pp. Format: A4.  [Out of print.]
Vol. 2, no. 4 (Spring 1990). The tragedy of the Chinese revolution. Contents: contributions on the Chinese revolution, the Chinese pre-war workers movement, Chen Duxiu, Chinese Trotskyism, obituaries of Sam Bornstein and Paula Kitty Watson, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Paul Collin, Damien Durand, Pierre Broué, C. Frank Glass, Zheng Chaolin, Peng Shuzi, Wang Fanxi et al. 58 pp. Format: A4. [Out of print]
Vol. 3, no. 1 (Summer 1990). Stalinism & communism in Eastern Europe. Contents: contributions by and about Ludwik Hass and the Trotskyist movement in Poland, about Stalinism and Trotskyism in Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia, reminiscences of Fred Kissin, statements and comments on the death of Gerry Healy, obituaries of Oskar Hippe, a report on the Wuppertal Trotsky Conference 1990, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Fred Kissin, Ludwik Hass, W. Jedlicki, Sadik Premtaj, Barta (David Korner), Balacz Nagy, Ted Crawford et al. 54 pp. Format. A4. [Out of print.]
Vol. 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1990). Vietnam - workers’ revolution and national independence. Contents: contributions about the Trotskyist movement in Vietnam in the 1930s and 1940s, on its leader Ta Thu Thau, on their organ La Lutte etc., a contribution on the Ukrainian question, obituary of Joe Thomas, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Hugo Oehler, Simon Pirani, Daniel Hémery, Ngo Van Xuyet et al. 54 pp. Format: A4. [Out of print.]
Vol. 3, no. 3 (Spring 1991). Trotskyism and Stalinism in Greece. Contents: chiefly contributions by Greek Trotskyists on the fate of the Greek Trotskyists and  contemporaneous documents, obituaries of Tamara Deutscher, Louis Sinclair and Pat Wall, a report on a Trotsky Symposium held at Aberdeen in 1990, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Loukas Karliaftis, Raymond Molinier et al. 58 pp. Format: A4. [Out of print.]
Vol. 3, no. 4 (Autumn 1991) Imperialist war and national resistance. Contents: contributions about how Trotsky and the Trotskyists confronted the Second World War, a feature about CERMTRI, obituaries of Dave Hughes and Frank Ward, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Pierre Broué, Daniel Guérin, André Frankin, Ian Birchall, Paul Flewers, Al Richardson et al. 50 pp. Format: A4. [Out of print.]
Vol. 4, no. 1/2 (Winter 1991/92, dedicated to the memory of Sam Bornstein). The Spanish civil war - the view from the Left. Contents: contributions (recent research results and many documents from the 1930s) about the Spanish revolution and civil war with special emphasis on the role and fate of the Spanish left oppositionists. Authors: Andy Durgan, Hans Schafranek, Kurt Landau, Mieczyslaw Bortenstein, Nicola di Bartolomeo, Domenico Sedran, August Thalheimer, Sherry Mangan, Hans David Freund, Jean Rous et al. 402 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 0-9508423-7-0
Vol. 4, no. 3 (Summer 1992) Bolivia - the revolution derailed? Contents: contributions about the crisis of 1952 and the Trotskyist movement in Bolivia, obituaries of Edmund Samarakoddy and Martha Phillips, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Juan Robles, Guillermo Lora, Pierre Broué, Liborio Justo, José Villa, Mike Jones, Walter Kendall, Ted Crawford et al. 160 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm.
Vol. 4, no. 4 (Spring 1993). Colour and class - the origins of South African Trotskyism. Contents: contributions on the early history and development of South African Trotskyism, its pioneers and leaders including documents, work in progress, obituaries of Andreu Nin and Wolfgang Vaclav Salus, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Baruch Hirson, Ian Hunter et al. 224 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm.
Vol. 5, no. 1 (Autumn 1993). Eyewitness to disaster - the German labour movement and the rise of Hitler 1929-33. Contents: chiefly contemporaneous eyewitness reports from Germany at the end of the Weimar Republic, a biographical sketch of Sam Gordon, obituaries of Prins Rajasooriya and Louis Bondy, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Sam Gordon, Mildred Gordon, Mike Jones, Mika Etchebehere, Ernest Rogers, Ted Crawford, Al Richardson et al. 160 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm.
Vol. 5, no. 2 (Spring 1994). Germany 1918-23 - from the November revolution to the failed October. Contents: contributions dealing with the communist movement and the struggle for a united front in Germany, with Paul Levi, with Trotsky’s Lessons of October and with the situation in 1923, work in progress, reviews, letters. Authors: Jakob Reich, Arthur Rosenberg, Udo Winkel, Paul Levi, Ernest Rogers, August Thalheimer, Jacob Walcher, Victor Serge, Mike Jones et al. 192 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm.
Vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1994). Victor Serge - the century of the unexpected. Essays on revolution and counter-revolution. Besides articles by and about Victor Serge, this issue includes an appreciation of F.A. Ridley (1897-1994), work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Victor Serge, Richard Greeman, Ernest Rogers, Julian Gorkin et al. 288 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm.
Vol. 5, no. 4 (Spring 1995). The Italian Left - through fascism, war and revolution. Contents: contributions about Trotskyism and left communism/Bordighism in Italy with focus on the years prior to 1945 and on pioneering Trotskyists like Di Bartolomeo, Tresso, Leonetti, including several historical vignettes and biographical sketches about Italian Trotskyists. The issue contains also obituaries of Margaret Dewar, William Campbell Tait and Adam Westoby, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Paolo Casciola, Alfonso Leonetti, Pierre Broué, Arturo Peregalli et al. 256 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm.
Volume 6, no. 1 (Winter 1995/96). Trotskyism in Poland. Contents: chiefly containing rich material by and about Ludwik Hass and the history of Trotskyism in Poland up to 1945, obituaries of Ernest Mandel, Kenneth John Tarbuck and Bernard Dix, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Ludwik Hass, Leon Trotsky, G. Soltysiak et al. 224 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm.
Volume 6, no. 2/3 (Summer 1996). Essays on revolutionary Marxism in Britain and Ireland from the 1930s to the 1960s. Contents: contributions about the origins of Trotskyism in Ireland, on C.L.R. James in Britain, the Trotskyists’ intervention into the class struggle in 1945 etc., about recently discovered material on Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches, obituaries of Ellis Hillman and Michel Pablo, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Ciaran Crossey, James Monaghan, John Archer, Paul Flewers, John McIlroy, Sam Levy, Mike Jones et al. 320 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm.
Volume 6, no. 4 (1997). Blows against the Empire - Trotskyism in Ceylon. Contents: chiefly contributions by Sri Lankan authors on the once strongest party of the Fourth International, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, on Trotskyism in India, obituaries of Alex Acheson and Nils Kåre Dahl, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Kumari Jayawardene, Leslie Goonewardene, Philip Gunawardena, Colvin R. de Silva, N.M. Perera, Reggie Perera, M. Grannum, Y.R. Amarasinghe, V. Karalasingham, Charles Wesley Ervin, Bob Pitt et al. 318 pp. Format: 14.5x23 cm. ISBN 1-89943-826-2
Volume 7, no. 1 (1998). A paradise for capitalism? Class and leadership in twentieth century Belgium. Contents: contributions about the history of Belgian Trotskyism, about the Belgian general strike of 1960/61, historical vignettes, obituaries of David Rousset, Bernard Soysa, Georg Scheuer, Fred Bumby, Michael Tippett. Reviews, letters, reader’s notes. Authors: Catherine Legien, Pierre Broué, Leon Trotsky, Harry Ratner, Serge Simon, John McIlroy et al. 254 pp. Format: 14.5x23 cm. ISBN 1-89943-829-7
Volume 7, no. 2 (Spring 1999). Culture and revolution in the thought of Leon Trotsky. Contents/authors: a selection of Leon Trotsky’s writings on literature, literature criticism, culture and arts, as well as comments and analyses by Fritz Keller, John Plant, Pierre Naville, Richard Greeman, James T. Farrell, Maurice Nadeau et al., obituaries of Cornelius Castoriadis, Morris Lewit, Sal Santen, Bob Wilsker, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. 316 pp. Format: 14.5x23 cm. ISBN 1-89943-832-7
Volume 7, no. 3 (Spring 2000). The hidden pearl of the Caribbean - Trotskyism in Cuba. Contents/authors: almost a revised version of Gary Tennant’s exhaustive dissertation on the history and fate of Cuban Trotskyism. Also contained in this issue: obituaries of Baruch Hirson, Morry Sollof, Jim Allen, Staff Cottman, Louis Rigaudias and Albert Glotzer, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. 364 pp. Format: 14.5x23 cm. ISBN 1-89943-833-5
Volume 7, no. 4 (Winter 2000/01) From syndicalism to Trotskyism - writings of Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer. Also contained in this issue: three appraisals of Tony Cliff (1917-2000), obituaries of Tony Cliff and Mattie Merrigan, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. 252 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 1-89943-835-1
Volume 8, no. 1 (Summer 2001) The Comintern and its critics. Contents/authors: contributions by John McIlroy on Arthur Reade, by Fritz Keller on Trotskyism in Austria, by Charles W. Ervin on Philip Gunawardena, by Walter Kendall on Comintern’s turn from social fascism to popular frontism, by Augustín Guillamón on the investigation of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists 1938, by Jean-Jacques Marie on the journal of Georgi Dimitrov, etc.; the issue also contains an appreciation of John Archer (1909-2000), obituaries of Frank Maitland, Sean Hallahan and Stuart Kirby, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. 316 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 1-89943-838-6
Volume 8, no. 2 (Summer 2002) Mutiny - disaffection and unrest in the armed forces. Authors: Ted Crawford, Julian Putkowski, Ian Birchall, Karl Radek, Christian Rakovsky, Tico Jossifort, David Renton, Duncan Hallas et al. Also contained in this issue: obituaries of Brian Crookes, Sol Dollinger, Ray Gibbon, Jean-Pierre Hirou, Ann Keen, Arturo Peregalli, Oscar Pereira, Bill Turner and Charlie van Gelderen, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. 308 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 1-89943-839-4
Volume 8, no. 3 (Autumn 2003). The Balkan socialist tradition. Contents: writings on the origins of the Balkan socialist tradition - between populism and Marxism, on Marxism and the Eastern question - challenging the orthodoxy 1896-97, on Bulgarian socialism and the Macedonian national liberation movement, 1903-08, on the revolution in Turkey and the Balkan Federation, on the annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary in 1908, on the Balkan Federation and Balkan social democracy, on the Balkan wars of 1912-13 and the Balkan Federation, and on the First World War and the Balkan Federation. Among the authors are Otto Bauer, Rosa Luxemburg, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Kautsky, Eduard Benstein, Christian Rakovsky, and a lot of lesser-known authors from Bulgaria, Serbia and other Balkan countries. The issue also contains obituaries of Pierre Bois, Jimmy Deane, Pat Jordan, Michael Kidron, John Lawrence and Silvio Paolicchi, work in progress, reviews, letters, reader’s notes. 402 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 1-9523648-5-9
Volume 8, no. 4 (Dec. 2004). August Thalheimer and German communism. Contents / authors: an appreciation of Al Richardson (1941-2003) by John McIlroy, contributions by Ottokar Luban and Karl Retzlaw about the KPD policy in 1919 and 1920, contributions by August Thalheimer about problems of German communist policy in the 1920s, by Alexander Vatlin about the programme discussion in the Comintern, and by Paolo Sensini about Bruno Rizzi; the issue also contains obituaries of Duncan Hallas, Fred Jackson, Paul Siegel and Walter Kendall, work in progress, reviews, and letters. 320 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 1-9523648-7-5
Vol. 9, no. 1 (Autumn 2005). The Russian revolution of 1905. Contents/authors: introduction by Pete Glatter, The road to bloody sunday [from various contemporaneous and later sources], introduced by Pete Glatter, A revolution takes shape [from various contemporaneous and later sources], introduced by Pete Glatter, The decisive days [from various contemporaneous and later sources], introduced by Pete Glatter and Philip Ruff, Rosa Luxemburg and the 1905 revolution, introduced by Mark Thomas, Patterns of conflict in the 1905 revolution by Mike Haynes. The issue also contains obituaries of Saul Bellow, Brian Manning, Ernest Rogers, and Ngo Van, work in progress, reviews, and letters. 312 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 1-9551127-0-2
Vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer 2006). Stalinism, revolution and counter-revolution. Partial list of contents/authors: 'Comrade Thomas' and the secret activity of the Comintern in Germany 1919-1925, by Alexander Vatlin; Marxism, war and revolution: Trotsky and the POUM, by Andy Durgan; Two pages from Indian Trotskyist history, by Charles Wesley Ervin; The revolutionary odyssey of John Lawrence, by John McIlroy; Daniel Guérin's dialogue with Leninism, by Ian Birchall. The issue also contains an obituary of Vlady Kibalchich and some reviews. 256 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 1-9551127-1-3
Vol. 9, no. 3 (Autumn 2006). Remembering 1956. Partial list of contents/authors: On the fiftieth anniversary of 1956, by John McIlroy; The unexpected denunciation, by Paul Flewers; The Brian Pearce dossier; A communist historian in 1956, by John McIlroy; Beyond the boundary of Leninism?, by Christian Hogsbjerg; Nineteen Fifty-Six and the French Left, by Ian Birchall; Palmiro Togliatti and the Italian Communist Party in 1956, by Tobias Abse; Remembering 1956, by Harry Ratner. The issue also contains the sections "Archive", "Obituaries", "Work in progress", and "Reviews". 276 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 1-9551127-2-0
Vol. 9, no. 4 (Autumn 2007). Pierre Broué : revolutionary historian. Partial list of contents/authors: Pierre Broué (1926-2005), by Vincent Présumey; [9 pieces from Pierre Broué's work, transl. into Engl. for the first time:] Remarks on the history of the Bolshevik Party, Spartacism, Bolshevism and ultra-leftism in face of the problems of the proletarian revolution in Germany (1918-1923), Five years on, The "bloc" of the oppositions against Stalin in the USSR in 1932, The Bolshevik-Leninist faction, The Socialist Youth in Spain (1934-1936), Kurt Landau, In Germany for the International, Van Heijenoort - a Trotskyist in New York in the Second World War; The historiography of German Trotskyism, by Reiner Tosstorff. The issue also contains the sections "Obituaries" (Ted Grant, Meryl Fernando, Peter Fryer, Mary Low, Sydney Wanasinghe, Wesley Muthiah, Yves Dechezelles), "Work in progress", and "Reviews". 360 pp. Format: 14.5x21 cm. ISBN 0-9551127-3-7
Vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 2009). Rosa Luxemburg: Selected political and literary writings. Partial list of contents/authors: [Selected writings by Rosa Luxemburg on biographical and literary topics, on political issues, on problems of party organisation and on Russian affairs;most of the assembled items were never before published in English language]; Selina Perera, by Charles Wesley Ervin; Pierre Lambert (1920-2008), by Vincent Présumey. The issue also contains 10 obituaries (Karuppiah Appanraj, Peter 'Pedro' Miguel Camejo, Pete Glatter, Jorge Guidobono, Celia Hart Santamaria, Ludwik Hass, Sy Landy, Brian Pearce, Dov Shas, BJ Widick), and last not least the sections "Work in progress" (2 review articles), "Reviews" (14 single reviews), and "Letters. 290 pp. Format: 15.2x23.5 cm. ISBN 978-0-85036-693-8 ; 0-9551127-4-5

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Revolutionary history – Index of authors *)

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Journal of Trotsky Studies
[ISSN 1358-1295]

The Journal of Trotsky Studies (JTS) was launched in 1993 as a scholarly journal dedicated to the life and work of Leon Trotsky, aiming to encourage the furtherance of Trotsky studies through the publication of relevant articles and hitherto untranslated works, both primary and secondary sources, in English. No. 1 of Journal of Trotsky Studies appeared in July 1993, with no. 4 (Autumn 1996) the journal ceased publication. It was published under the name and with some financial support of the Institute of Russian and East European Studies (IREES), Glasgow University (address: 29 Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RS, Britain). Ian D. Thatcher and James D. White, both staff members of the IREES, functioned as editors. The editorial board consisted of American, British, and Israeli Trotskyist and non-Trotskyist scholars and other people particularly devoted to Trotsky research. The average number of pages per issue was 166, the format was 14.5x20.5 cm, the price £ 5.oo.

The contents of Journal of Trotsky Studies consisted of articles (both original publications and translations of articles previously published elsewhere), research notes, translations, bibliographical items and book reviews.

Here you can find a (partial) list of contents of the 4 issues which had been published:

Some literature about Journal of Trotsky Studies:
- Callesen, Gerd: [Review], in: Arbejderhistorie. 1994 (42), p. 101.
- Callesen, Gerd: Nyt (?) om Trotsky, in: Arbejderhistorie, 1995 (1), p. 83.
- Fryer, Peter: For students of Trotsky, in: Workers Press, 1995 (480), p. 6.
- Fryer, Peter: A new Trotsky journal, in: Workers Press, 1993 (Nov. 20), p. 6.
- Marot, John Eric: A new Trotsky journal, in: Europe-Asia Studies, 49.1997 (7), pp. 1361-1362.
- Robertson, Edna: The Trotsky connection, in: The Herald (Glasgow), 211.1993 (163), p. 8.
- Thatcher, Ian D.: Trotsky studies - a new development, in: Coexistence, 30.1993 (4), pp. 349-350.


Journal of Trotsky Studies – Index of authors

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Wolfgang and Petra Lubitz
last rev. Nov. 2009

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