Lenin's State and Revolution is a broad assault on revisionism. Its impulse lies in Lenin's boundless political ambition, namely his craving to acquire absolute power in Russia in order to instigate a worldwide revolution...If his ambition was to be realized, Lenin had to insist on violent revolution and the abolition of the existing state. ...What Lenin was obliquely arguing was that a clean sweep must be made of the existing political mechanism in order for the Communist party, of which he was undisputed leader, to take power. And that power was to be unrestrained.
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"The State and Revolution" describes the role that the state plays in society along with the necessity of proletarian revolution. It is regarded as one of Lenin's most important works and much of it forms the basis for today's Marxist thought. This book includes an essay that offers a skeptical critique of the author's arguments and assertions.
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ISBN
9781596980808
Publisert
2009-02-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Regnery Publishing Inc
Vekt
168 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Introduction by

Biographical note

Richard Pipes is Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University and was director of Eastern European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council in 1981-82. His introduction to Lenin's State and Revolution examines the context in which it was written as well as the effect it had on the world at large.