The State and Revolution

by V I Lenin

Overview

Lenin's classic work on the state, clarifying the differences with the opportunists of various stripes. He shows how the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat was raised by Marx and Engels after the Paris Commune.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781505792966
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/27/2014
Pages:	116
Sales rank:	685,447
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (1870–1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Translation and Footnotes ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: A Beginner's Guide to State and Revolution 1

The State and Revolution: The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution 35

Preface to the First Edition 37

Preface to the Second Edition 39

Chapter 1 Class Society and the State 41

Chapter 2 The Experience of 1848-51 59

Chapter 3 The Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871-Marx's Analysis 73

Chapter 4 Continuation: Supplementary Explanations by Engels 95

Chapter 5 The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State 121

Chapter 6 The Vulgarization of Marxism by the Opportunists 143

Chapter 7 The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 163

Postscript to the First Edition 165

Historical and Literary Chronology 167

Biographical and Organizational Glossary 173