Recorded at the London Communist Forum hosted by the CPGB on November 11 2012. Lars T Lih is a leading scholar of the Russian Revolution whose work challenges many myths of both establishment and left thought, like the Bolshevik ‘party of a new type’. Highly recommended.

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