Lars T. Lih

Lars T. Lih challenges the conventional interpretation of V. I. Lenin’s classic text, included here…

Lars T. Lih on the Bolshevik policies of war communism and what they meant for workers and peasants.

Lars T. Lih on Lenin, Bukharin and the new economic policy of the Bolsheviks. In PDF format.

An academic article challenging the anti-bolshevik thesis that the bolshevik policies implemented in war communism period was an indication of their "innate" stalinism. Presenting his case on a reading of ABC of Communism, Lih questions the validity of bias against the Bolsheviks based on the idea that, they were already trying to establish state capitalism with War Communism and they were confusing state capitalism…