Bøger af Vladimir I Lenin

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

1929. Part 20. Translated by Joshua Kunitz and Moissaye J. Olgin. The only edition authorized by the V.I. Lenin Institute, Moscow. International Publishers was the publishing house of the Communist Party, U.S.A. and reprinted the Soviet editions of these works. According to an editor's note, this will be the only authorized translation of Lenin's writings from 1893 to 1924. This volume covers the Revolution of 1917 from the March Revolution to the July Days. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred, and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their deaths, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names, to a certain extent, for the 'consolation' of the oppressed classes, and with the object of duping the latter, while, at the same time, robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge, and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labour movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is, or seems, acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now 'Marxists' (don't laugh!). And more and more frequently, German bourgeois scholars, only yesterday specialists in the annihilation of Marxism, are speaking of the 'national-German' Marx, who, they claim, educated the labour unions, which are so splendidly organised for the purpose of waging a predatory war!

Among Lenin's most significant theoretical works, What ls To Be Done? has long been a classic on the role of a revolutionary socialist party. In it he elaborated the principles upon which the Bolshevik, or Communist, Party was founded. Lenin clarified the difference between a party of reform and a vanguard party of revolution and the role of Marxist theory and education. He discussed questions such as the attitude to terrorism, to reforms and to students and other non--proletarian forces, as well as methods of work, the party press and assimilation of the experiences of other countries.

The present collection consists of articles and speeches by V. I. Lenin shedding light on the events in Russia from the period of the bourgeois-democratic revolution in February 1917 to the Great October Socialist Revolution. The works included in this volume give a Marxist assessment of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, showing its specific features, characterizing the struggle of classes and parties, and exposing the imperialist nature of the First World War and the anti-popular essence of the Provisional Government. The material in the collection brings out the events of 1917 to show how the February bourgeois-democratic revolution developed into the October Socialist Revolution. The collection includes editorial notes and a name index.

CONTENTSThe Development of Capitalism in RussiaThe Theoretical Mistakes of the Narodnik EconomistsThe Differentiation of the PeasantryThe Landowners' Transition from Corvée to Capitalist EconomyThe Growth of Commercial AgricultureThe First Stages of Capitalism in IndustryCapitalist Manufacture and Capitalist Domestic IndustryThe Development of Large-Scale Machine IndustryThe Formation of the Home Market

This collection of Lenin's writings and speeches opens up with a preface by N. K. Krupskaya, Lenin's wife and fellow-revolutionary, a prominent figure of the Soviet state; she wrote it especially for this collection of Lenin's articles. An excerpt from the book My Recollections of Lenin written by Clara Zetkin, an outstanding leader of the German and international labor movement, is given as an appendix.