Lars T. Lih

Lenin

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Lenin Rediscovered

What Is to Be Done? in Context

This commentary to Lenin's landmark "What is to be Done?" (1902) provides hitherto unavailable contextual information about Lenin's outlook and aims t...

What Was Bolshevism?

How did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism,...

Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921

Between 1914 and 1921, Russia experienced a national crisis that destroyed the tsarist state and led to the establishment of the new Bolshevik order. ...

The Bolshevik Sowing Committees of 1920

Apotheosis of War Communism?

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