We publish here extracts from Alan Woods’ introduction to the new Wellred Books’ edition of Ted Grant’s Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution, republished this year to celebrate the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. In this intro, Alan discusses the enormous gains of the revolution – and how they were destroyed by Stalinist degeneration.

In this video from the recent REVOLUTION! Marxist festival, hosted by Socialist Appeal in London on 21-23 October, Esteban Volkov (Trotsky’s grandson), Alan Woods (editor of In Defence of Marxism), and Rob Sewell (editor of Socialist Appeal) introduce the new Wellred edition of Leon Trotsky’s Marxist masterpiece – his biography of Joseph Stalin.

Alan Woods, editor of In Defence of Marxism, discusses the release of the most complete edition ever published of Leon Trotsky’s biography of Stalin. The video is recorded at Leon Trotsky’s house in Mexico, where he was assassinated and which today is the Leon Trotsky Museum.