Marilyn Vogt-Downey was a Russian translator for many years.  She translated the writings of Leon Trotsky for the Pathfinder Press.Writings of Leon Trotsky series.  She also translated Notebooks for the Grandchildren, the memoirs of a Ukrainian Trotskyist who survived the Stalin era. A collection of her writings on the former Soviet Union appeared in a volume the USSR: 1987-1991: Marxists Perspectives.