Lars T. Lih is the author of Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921 (University of California Press, 1990), and Lenin (Reaktion Books, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Stalin's Letters to Molotov (Yale University Press, 1995), and has written many articles on the history of the Bolshevik Party and the revolutionary experience in Russia. Lih received his Ph.D. from Princeton University (1984), and has taught at Wellesley College and Duke University. He is presently an independent researcher living and working in Montreal, Quebec.