Vadim Rogovin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vadim Rogovin

Russian Marxist historian and sociologist

Date of Birth: 10-May-1937

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 25-Sep-1998

Profession: historian, university teacher, sociologist, philosopher, non-fiction writer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin (Russian: ????´? ????´????? ????´???) (10 May 1937 in Moscow – 25 September 1998 in Moscow) 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 Stalin era between 1923 and 1940, with an emphasis on the Trotskyist opposition. He was considered the leading one among Trotskyist Soviet historians emerging after Perestroika.In 1998 Vadim Rogovin died of cancer, survived by his wife, Galina Valiuzhenich.