Andre Liebich. From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy after 1921. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii, 476 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Sources. Index. $48.00, cloth.
Andre Liebich begins and ends this meticulous biography of Menshevism by insisting, not without some warnings, on the utility of studying exile movements. His introduction deplores the lack of historical imagination which has brought scholars overwhelmingly to concentrate upon the winners, ignoring those who, by the fact of their exile, embody lost causes, defeat, rejection. Liebich's interest in exile movements generally prompts him to address this phenomenon. A second interest, equally …
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