Lenin Rediscoverd : What is to Be Done? in Context

Name: Lenin Rediscoverd : What is to Be Done? in Context
Rating: 4.42 (163 reviews)
Author: Lars T. Lih
ISBN: 9789350022108

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Language: English

Published by Aakar Books, 2013

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Series: Book 10 of 315 - Historical Materialism

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Lenin's What is to be done? (1902) has long been seen as the founding document of a party of a new type. For some it provided a model of the vanguard party that was the essence of Bolshevism, for others it manifested Lenin's elitist and manipulative attitude towards the workers. This substantial new commentary based on contemporary Russian and German language sources, provides hitherto unavailable contextual information that undermines these views and shows how Lenin's argument rests squarely on an optimistic confidence in the workers revolutionary inclinations and on his admiration of German Social Democracy in particular. Lenin's outlook cannot be understood Lih claims here, outside the context of international Social Democracy the disputes within Russian Social Democracy and the institutions of the revolutionary underground. The commentary is accompanied by a complete new translation of What is to be done? that focuses particularly on hard-to-translate key terms. This study raises new and unsettling questions about the legacy of Marx, Bolshevism as a historical force, and the course of soviet history but most of all it will revolutionise the conventional interpretations of Lenin.…

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Title: Lenin Rediscoverd : What is to Be Done? in Context
Author: Lars T. Lih
Publisher: Aakar Books
Publication year: 2013
Condition: New
Dust jacket: New
Binding: Soft cover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 9350022109
ISBN 13: 9789350022108
Edition: 1st Edition
Series: Book 10 of 315: Historical Materialism

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"It would be difficult to praise too highly Lars Lih's contribution to such an honest reassessment of Lenin's thought." --Paul Blackledge, International Socialism "Extraordinary and extraordinarily welcome." -- John Molyneux "A magnificent contribution to our understanding of V.I. Lenin, Bolshevism, Marxism, and the history of the Russian revolutionary movement and of Communism." -- Paul LeBlanc "Historians of the Russian Revolution owe a great debt to Lars Lih. The new textbook on the formative years of Bolshevism is much more convincing than the old version." -- Kevin Murphy "An important advance in the historiography of classical Marxism" -- Alan Shandro, Science & Society 73/ 4, (October 2009), 556-9 [...] Lih's arguments are important to the modern left. weeklyworker, Issue 638, 30 August 2006 "Lars T. Lih hat sich mit seinem voluminosen Buch die Aufgabe gestellt, der Entstehung und dem Kontext von Lenins Schrift gerecht zu werden und die gangige Meinung, darin gehe es nur um die Organisationsfrage in der russischen Sozialdemokratie, zu widerlegen. "Owing to the fatal fascination with spontaneity vs. Consciousness', the creators of the textbook interpretation looked in the wrong places [...], at Tkachev, Chernyshevsky and Bakunin instead of Kautsky and Bebel, Lafargue and Guesde. They did not uncover the shared assumptions and the empirical clashes that inform Lenin's polemics with fellow Social Democrats. They did not look at the extensive range of Lenin's writings produced in the Iskra period" (S. 555). Diese Unstimmigkeit versucht Lih durch sein Werk zu korrigieren, was ihm auch gelungen ist. Es ist sein Verdienst, auf die Mangel gangiger Interpretationen hingewiesen und Lenins Schrift in den Zusammenhang ihrer Zeit gestellt zu haben. Wie er selbst zugibt, hat er auch versucht, dem Leser etwas von der revolutionaren Aufbruchsstimmung der Zeit mitzugeben. Zwar sind einige von Lihs Argumenten nicht unbedingt neu, aber die Art und Weise, wie er sie prasentiert und kontextualisiert, ist das Neue - auerdem lasst sich sein Buch leicht und angenehm lesen." -- Laura Polexe, Archiv fur Sozialgeschichte online About Bread and Authority (1990) (by Lars T. Lih) 'If we could put the desperately ill Russia of today on the psyciatrist's couch, we would inevitably have to spend a great many sessions on its earliest childhood. This is what Lars T. Lih has done in the remarkably insightful study ... A fine work.' from a one-paragraph anonymous notice in Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1991. '...a rich and thoroughly researched account of food supply policies in the tumultuous years between the fall of the tsarist regime and Lenin's NEP. By using the success of failure of food supply policies as a barometer of political authority in the face of potential social breakdown, the book also gives us food for thought in understanding the problems of contemporary Russia.' Marcia Weigle, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 1992, vol. 19 Nos. 1-3. 'The jacket of this thoughtful study by Lars T. Lih reproduces a Russian poster showing the 'bony finger of Hunger' pointing to starving masses. [NB: I found this poster in a Russian souvenir shop.] ... Lih's discerning and sympathetic analysis enlarges our view of both past and present.' Dorothy Atkinson, American Hist. Review, Dec. 1991. "Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." A. J. DeBlasio, University of Pittsburgh, ChoiceReviews.online (43-6070)

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