Dear Comrades

Vladimir N. Brovkin, born in the Soviet Union, was associate professor of history at Harvard University. His publications include The Mensheviks after October: Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship; Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922; and The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars.