Lars T. Lih is an independent scholar who lives in Montreal. His books include Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914–1921 (1990), Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be Done? in Context (2005), Lenin (2011), and What Was Bolshevism (2023).
The Bolshevik Adjustment
The Second Congress of Soviets’ decrees were state acts that irrevocably changed the whole political landscape.



