Jonathan Daly is Professor of History at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is author most recently of Seven Myths of the Russian Revolution and The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western Civilization. Scott B. Smith (1963-2017) was Professor of History at Linfield University. He is author of Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918-1923.