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2013 Reprint of 1929 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In "What Is to Be Done?", Lenin argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over... Read Full Overview

Lenin's work from 1902 explaining the basic's of the communist party in tsarist Russia.

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... Read Full Overview

This is Lenin's seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years before Russia's October 1917 Revolution. His plan to overturn the Czar's ruthless autocratic regime proposes the establishment of a cadre of "professional revolutionaries" with... Read Full Overview

What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement, is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in 1901 and published in 1902. Its title is inspired by the novel of the same name by the 19th century Russian revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky.In... Read Full Overview

A basic consideration of the conditions and problems in the formation of a vanguard, revolutionary party.

A basic consideration of the conditions and problems in the formation of a vanguard, revolutionary party.

"The pamphlet... outlined a broad plan of organisation in which everyone would find a place for himself, become a cog in the revolutionary machine, a cog, which, no matter how small, was vital to the working of the machine. The pamphlet urged the necessity of intensive and... Read Full Overview

"Was tun?" ist eine 1902 erschienene Schrift von Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin, die als sein Hauptwerk gilt. Darin begr ndet Lenin durch die Betrachtung der Zusammenarbeit von Bildungsb rgertum und Arbeiterklasse innerhalb sozialistischer Parteien die Theorie der "Avantgarde des Proletariats",... Read Full Overview