In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant
for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the
October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short
intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned,
never-completed masterwork "The State and Revolution". This
powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime
and a wealth of insights into Leninist politics. It was here that
Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his
opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the
lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois
state and the replacement of capitalism by the dictatorship of the
proletariat. As both historical document and political statement,
its importance can hardly be exaggerated. This title is translated
and edited with an introduction by Robert Service.
關於作者:
Vladimir Lenin was born in 1870 and was one of the most
influential people of the 20th century. He became a Russian
revolutionary, a communist politician, the principal leader of the
October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist
Republic and, from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet
Union.
目錄:
Part 1 Class society and the state: the state as the product of
the irreconcilability of class contradictions
special bodies of armed men, prisons, etc.
the state as an instrument for the exploitation of the oppressed
class
the "withering away" of the state and violent revolution. Part 2
The state and revolution - the experience of 1848-51: the eve of
the revolution
the revolution in summary
the presentation of the question by Marx in 1852. Part 3 The
state and revolution - the experience of the Paris Commune of 1871
- Marx''s analysis: what was heroic about the Communards''
attempt?
with what is the smashed state machine to be replaced?
the eradication of the parliamentarianism
organization of the unity of the nation
the destruction of the parasite state. Part 4 Continuation -
supplementary clarifications by Engels: the housing question
the polemic with the anarchists
letter to Bebel
critique of the draft of the Erfurt Programme
the 1891 Preface to Marx''s "The Civil War in France"
Engels on the overcoming of democracy. Part 5 The economic basis
for the withering away of the state: the presentation of the
question by Marx
the transition from capitalism to Communisim
the first phase of Communist society
the higher phase of Communist society. Part 6 The vulgarization
of Marxism by the opportunists: Plekhanov''s polemic with the
Anarchists
Kautsky''s polemic with the opportunists
Kautsky''s polemic with Pannekoek. Part 7 The experience of the
Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.