John Marot (UCLA, Ph.D. 1987) is the author of The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History (2012, 2013). His essays have appeared in Jacobin, Tempest, Historical Materialism, Against the Current, and journals specializing in Russian and Soviet History.
The Rise and Fall of “Leninism”
Yes or no to Lenin and “Leninism”? It is high time to ask different questions.



