BOOK REVIEW The Mensheviks Leopold H. Haimson (ed), The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries. Voices from the Menshevik Past., in collaboration with Ziva Galiliy Garcia and Richard Wortman, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 515, £ 40.00 Neglect of those who lost out in the Russia of 1917 has been the weakness of not only the Soviet historiography. Western scholars— Cold War, Liberal, and Marxist—have also, for different reasons, concerned themselves mainly with explanations of the victory of the Bolsheviks. Other political groups were seen to have lost out because, for whatever reasons, the Bolsheviks had succeeded. In the last decade, at least in the West, there has been a growing interest in the other political tendencies which has taken the form of Ph.D theses leading to publication of monographic studies on the different bourgeois-liberal groups and also the Social Revolutionaries, discussing their role right upto 1917 and after. In comparison, works on the Mensheviks, have dealt mainly with the debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, or the role of the Social Democrats in the workers movement upto 1905. This work on the three Menshevik revolutionaries, therefore, fills a very visible gap. The book is timely, and interesting for many reasons, apart from being well presented. It consists of three long interviews conducted over a period of five years, 1960 to 1965, with three leading activists of the Russian Menshevik movement, and a long introduction by Leopold Haimson. The work is clearly a labour of love and scholarship, not only on the part of the editors but also those who have been interviewed. The three Menshevik revolutionaries whose reminiscences are presented are Lydia Dan, Boris Niccolaevsky and George Denike. According to the editors they have been chosen as representatives for reconstructing the history of Menshevism because of the complementariness of their vision made possible because of their different social backgrounds and different generations in terms of age and experience. That the three were conscious contributors to the Social Scientist, Vol. 18, Nos. 11-12, November-December 1990