State and Revolution

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Overview

This essay, written by Lenin at the time of the First World War was intended to serve as an analytical discussion of the role of the state as the instrument of the ruling class and the need of the working class to create a new one.

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