Lara Douds
Historian and assistant professor specializing in Russian and Soviet history; author of Inside Lenin's Government and expert on Lenin's government, political practice and culture.
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Mar 10, 2026 • 1h 1min
Vladimir Lenin: life of the week
Lara Douds, historian and author who studies Lenin’s government, explores Lenin’s radical shift from émigré intellectual to revolutionary leader. Short takes cover his formative traumas, turn to Marxism, key texts and party tactics. The conversation moves through the 1917 return, state-building, civil war measures, the NEP, his declining health and the contested legacy that endures today.
