Trotsky books published in USSR; special publishing fund
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SOCIALIST ACTION AUGUST 1990 3 For the first time in over six decades, a book by Trotsky has been published in the Soviet Union. On July 19, Walnut Publishing Co. received the four-volume "Archives of Trotsky: Communist Opposition in the USSR 1923-1927." Its pub01110) 31111118 1923-1927 TOM I lication is a major event in the history of the socialist movement in the USSR and throughout the world.
The four-volume set was printed by Terra Publishers, a Moscow cooperative, in an edition of 100,000 copies, and is going on sale throughout the Soviet BCCOP 1'23-1027 TOM+ "The Communist Opposition in the USSR 1923 -1927" consists primarily of documents and letters of Trotsky from that period. It also includes material from other oppositionists as well as major documents such as the "Draft Platform of the Bolshevik-Leninists (Opposition)' from September 1927, which was signed by Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kameney, Rakovsky, and Pyatakov, among others.
The set was compiled by noted Trotsky scholar Dr. Yuri Felshtinsky who has worked at the Trotsky archives at Harvard University, the Hoover Institute, and the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Originally published in Russian in 1988 by Chalidze Publishers in Vermont, these four volumes make available to the Soviet people for the first time the true history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in those early years.
Dr. Felshtinsky has been working, as has Walnut Publishing Co., to get Trotsky published in the Soviet Union. He told Socialist Action, "This is a very
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