Voronsky was an outstanding figure of post-revolutionary Soviet intellectual life, editor of the most important literary journal of the 1920s in the USSR and a supporter of Trotsky and the Left Opposition in the struggle against Stalinism. He was executed by Stalin in 1937. A defender of the "fellow traveler" writers and an opponent of the Proletarian Culture movement, Voronsky was one of the authentic representatives of classical Marxism in the field of literary criticism in the twentieth century. Learn More

David King's "Red Star Over Russia" presents over 550 photographs, posters and works of art illustrating the history of Russia from 1917 through 1953. Much of the material covering the October Revolution, Civil War and Great Terror is published for the first time. The accompanying text provides a clear historical background needed to understand the graphic material. Learn More

Andrew Moore’s large format color photographs provide a dramatic and shocking glimpse into the utter decay of America’s former fourth largest city - the result of the decades-long deindustrialization of American capitalism. Learn More

In this lecture, David Walsh, arts editor of the World Socialist Web Site, discusses the significance of the strike by Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians. He places the strike within the context of the history of culture in the United States, calling for the re-emergence of the “socially engaged artist.” Learn More

First published in 1924, these essays by Trotsky illuminate the problem of literary creation in the first workers state.

"Trotsky was perhaps the greatest representative in history of the Marxist school of literary criticism, which itself incorporated what was most farsighted in the aesthetic criticism produced by the bourgeois-democratic revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."

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Contains some of the most important articles
and speeches by Leon Trotsky on questions of everyday life, culture and education. The articles contained in the first section were first published in 1923 in the Soviet Union in the daily paper Pravda and also as a book.

This edition also contains a selection of Trotsky's writings on education and culture, science and technology and the materialist world outlook. Learn More

In this lecture, David Walsh, arts editor of the World Socialist Web Site, discusses the significance of the strike by Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians. He places the strike within the context of the history of culture in the United States, calling for the re-emergence of the “socially engaged artist.”

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