Vladimir Ilich Uljanov (psevdonim Lenin; 22 aprelja 1870 - 21 janvarja 1924) - rossijskij politicheskij i gosudarstvennyj dejatel, sozdatel Rossijskoj sotsial-demokraticheskoj rabochej partii (bolshevikov), osnovatel SSSR.Sovremennye politiki i publitsisty sporjat: pochemu raspadajutsja imperii? Poc[...]
Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. This is an entirely new collection of Lenin's writing. For the first time it brings together crucial shorter works, to show that Lenin held a life-long commitment to f[...]
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.[...]
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 Revol[...]
"The State and Revolution" describes the role that the state plays in society along with the necessity of proletarian revolution. Written for a Marxist audience, Lenin criticizes the actions of the social democrats that dominated the communist movement at that time as well as elaborating on the role[...]
The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth century? Lenin, however, deserves more profound consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are test[...]