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State and Revolution (Skeptical Reader Series)
V.i. Lenin
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Description for State and Revolution (Skeptical Reader Series)
Paperback. "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. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Regnery Publishing Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Washington DC, United States
ISBN
9781596980808
SKU
V9781596980808
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About V.i. Lenin
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.
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