Böcker av Vladimir I Lenin

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.