Vadim Rogovin

Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin (Russian: Вади́м Заха́рович Рого́вин; 10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Russian Marxist (Trotskyist) historian and sociologist, Ph.D. in philosophy, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the author of Was There An Alternative?, the 7-volume study of the Stalin era between 1923 and 1940, with an emphasis on the Trotskyist opposition.

He was considered the leading Trotskyist Soviet historian to emerge after Perestroika. Rogovin was a supporter of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

In 1998, Rogovin died of cancer, survived by his wife, Galina Valiuzhenich.