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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788118803321

Autore

Lenin Vladimir Il'ich <1870-1924>

Titolo

State and revolution / / V.I. Lenin ; annotated and introduced by Todd Chretien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : Haymarket Books, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

335.4

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

A Note on the Translationand Footnotes; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Beginner's Guide to State and Revolution; The State and Revolution: The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Chapter 1: Class Society and the State; Chapter 2: The Experience of 1848-51; Chapter 3: The Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871: Marx's Analysis; Chapter 4: Continuation: Supplementary Explanations by Engels; Chapter 5: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State

Chapter 6: The Vulgarization of Marxism by the OpportunistsChapter 7: The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917; Postscript to the First Edition; Historical and Literary Chronology; Biographical and Organizational Glossary

Sommario/riassunto

<div><BR>V.I. Lenin was a leading member of the Bolshevik party in Russia from 1912 until his death in 1924, and is widely considered to have founded a distinct tradition in the struggle for revolutionary socialism, built from below. He is the author of celebrated works of theory such as State and Revolution, as well as widely misunderstood polemics like What is to be Done?<BR><BR>Todd Chretien is a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the ISR.<BR><BR></div>