State and Revolution - Softcover

Lenin, V.I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0717801969 ISBN 13: 9780717801961

Publisher: International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S., 2022

Synopsis

This essay, written by Lenin at the time of the First World War  was intended to serve as an analytical discussion of the role of the state as the instrument of the ruling class and the need of the working class to create a new one.

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'The replacement of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution'

In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution. This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of insights into Leninist politics. It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the dictatorship of the proletariat. As both historical document and political statement, its importance can hardly be exaggerated.

This translation by acclaimed historian Robert Service is faithful to the style of Lenin's original work, while his introduction discusses the writing and publication of The State and Revolution and the many interpretations of it since. This edition also contains a glossary.

Translated and edited with an introduction by Robert Service

About the Author

Vladimir Lenin was born in 1870 and was one of the most influential people of the 20th century. He became a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the principal leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and, from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

Edition details

• Publisher: International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0717801969
• ISBN 13: 9780717801961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 103