The State and Revolution including full original text by Lenin

Author: Vladimir Lenin, new introduction by Rupert Matthews

In August 1917 Vladimir Lenin was in temporary exile in Finland, having fled the Russian police. While there he wrote this highly influential book with the specific aim of stirring up the Russian people to support a Communist Revolution to be led by himself. Copies of the book were printed and smuggled back into Russia where they were widely circulated among the soviets, among the urban working classes and, to a lesser extent, among...