The Other Bolsheviks, focuses on the thought and activities of A.A. Bogdanov, A.V. Lunacharsky, Maxim Gorky, and V.D. Bonch-Bruevich, this political and intellectual history of Bolshevism before 1914 shows that Lenin by no means dominated or controlled his own fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party, as his famous essay 'What Is to Be Done?' (1902) implies.