State and Revolution / Edition 1

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Overview

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. The State and Revolution is Lenin's most significant work, in which he totally rejects the institutions of Western democracy and presents his vision of the final perfection of communism. For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth century, capitalism, the Russian revolution, and the role of communism in the tumultuous political and social movements that have shaped the modern world, this book offers unparalleled insight and understanding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780717801961
Publisher:	International Publishers Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/28/1943
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	103
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 - 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party Marxist-Leninist state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed a variant of it known as Leninism.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

  I. Class Society and the State
 II. The State and Revolution. The Experience of 1848-51.
III. The State and Revolution. Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. 
     Marx's Analysis.
 IV. Continuation. Supplementary Explanations by Engels
  V. The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
 VI.  The Vulgarization of Marxism by the Opportunists