Mehring Books Explained

Mehring Books is the publishing house of the International Committee of the Fourth International. In addition to putting out its own titles, it maintains an online storefront selling historical works of the socialist movement.[1]

Titles

Vadim Rogovin

Mehring Books has exclusive English publishing rights to the works of Soviet sociologist and historian Vadim Rogovin. It has thus far brought out four of his books in print.[2] [3]

Aleksandr Voronsky

Mehring Books published a volume of the works of Soviet Literary Critic Aleksandr Voronsky in 1998.[4] Leon Trotsky said that Voronsky was the greatest Soviet Literary Critic of his time.[5] The volume was translated by Frederick Choate, a former professor of Slavic Literature and Languages at UC Davis.

Works of the Socialist Equality Party

The house has published a number of books by members of the Socialist Equality Party, particularly David North.[6]

Tsar to Lenin

Mehring Books distributes Herman Axelbank's 1937 documentary Tsar to Lenin on DVD.[7] The Socialist Equality Party claims that its predecessor, the Workers League, purchased the film from Axelbank in 1978.

References

  1. Web site: Mehring Books - About . 2009-09-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090927071020/http://www.mehring.com/about.php . 2009-09-27 .
  2. Web site: 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror. 29 December 1998 .
  3. Web site: Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR. June 2009 .
  4. Web site: Mehring Books . 2009-09-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090410002229/http://www.mehring.com/showBook.php?book_id=ART_AS_THE_COGNITION_OF_LIFE . 2009-04-10 .
  5. Web site: Leon Trotsky: My Life (44. The Deportation) . 2009-09-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927072811/http://www.marx.org/archive/trotsky/1930/mylife/ch44.htm . 2011-09-27 . dead .
  6. Web site: Mehring Books publishes "Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness" by David North. 17 August 2007 .
  7. Web site: IMDb Tsar To Lenin. 9 April 1938. IMDb.

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