Phillip Pomper

Philip Pomper, PhD, a distinguished scholar of Communist and Russian leadership, is William F. Armstrong Professor of History at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and the author or editor of numerous books. These include The Russian Revolutionary Intelligentsia (1970), Trotsky’s Notebooks (editor, 1986), and Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin (1990). He is the recipient of numerous awards, an associate editor of History and Theory, and the featured scholar in the June 2004 issue of this publication. Professor Pomper may be reached at <>.