Manya Gordon Strunsky (1882 – December 27, 1945) was a Ukrainian-born Russian-Empire-expatriate American historian and political activist. Gordon is best remembered as a pioneering social historian of the Soviet Union, especially Soviet Russia, through her seminal 1941 book, Workers Before and After Lenin,[1] which looks at the track record of Vladimir Lenin and his heirs in transforming the economy of the Russian Empire into that of the Soviet Union.