"An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution An American journalist and revolutionary writer John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed s extraordinary record of that event Writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm he gives a gripping account of the events in Petrograd in November 1917 when Lenin and the Bolsheviks final ..."
"Shortly before the Soviet revolution of 1917, Lenin wrote State and Revolution. Drawing on detailed quotes from Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels, he lays down a Marxist view of the state, describes how a working-class revolution will overthrow it, and goes further in showing how social democracy is not enough - even in democratic republics such as those enjoyed by many western countries today, the ruling class is still in control of socie ..."
"The Russian revolution in October 1917 gave the workers', soldiers' and peasants' soviets full state power. It swept away the bourgeois state. Subsequent successful seizures of power in the name of the workers have involved either peasant armies led by working class political nuclei or, disastrously, the occupation of countries by the forces of the Russian workers' state. The bureaucratic leaders of European workers thwarted the spre ..."
"Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. In this volume, comprising the four works generally considered his most important publications, Lenin presents the goals and tactics of Communism with remarkable directness and forcefulness.His first major work wa ..."
"First published in early 1902, What Is to Be Done? remains a classic of Marxism on the building of the revolutionary party, which sets out the party's role as the organiser and director of the revolution."
"Those seeking a handle on the nature of modern capitalism and war, can do no better than to start with this incisive analysis by Lenin – it still applies, writ large, today.Ideologically a Marxist, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, (better known as Lenin), wrote copiously on political and economic systems, passionately believing in the need for a total rejection of capitalism by the proletariat worldwide.Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capital ..."
"An Unabridged Edition with all charts, tables, and original footnotes, to include: Preface – Preface to the French and German Editions – Concentration of Production and Monopolies – Banks and Their New Role – Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy – Export of Capital – Division of the World among Capitalist Associations – Division of the World among the Great Powers – Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism – Parasitism and De ..."
"“Adventure it was, and one of the most marvellous mankind ever embarked upon, sweeping into history at the head of the toiling masses, and staking everything on their vast and simple desires. Already the machinery had been set up by which the land of the great estates could be distributed among the peasants.” – John Reed John Reed’s Ten Days that Shook the World, published in 1922, is a gripping account of the Russian Revolution that to ..."
"For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth century, capitalism, the Russian revolution, and the role of Communism in the tumultuous political and social movements that have shaped the modern world, this book offers unparalleled ..."
State and Revolution by VladimirIlyichLenin Hardcover, 106 Pages, Published 2020 by Affordable Classics Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-63752-540-1, ISBN: 1-63752-540-0
"Shortly before the Soviet revolution of 1917, Lenin wrote State and Revolution."
"Respecting both the history a labor theories and the variety of theoretical points of view concerning the labor movement, this collection of readings includes selections by Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, William Haywood, Georges Sorel, Stanley Aronowitz, John R. Commons, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Thorstein Veblen, Henry Simons, and John Kenneth Galbraith, among others. Intending this as a text for classroom use, Larson and Nissen have arrange ..."
"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 ..."
"Marxism and Art is a book of basic readings in Marxist criticism and aesthetics. Maynard Solomon, through his selections and critical introductions, shows connections between the arts and society, between imagination nd history, and between art and revolution. He selects from thirty-six authors to reveal the range of opinion from dogma to heresy, beginning with excerpts from the works of Marx and Engels that are pertinent to an understa ..."
"An unabridged edition to include: Class Society and the State - The Experiences of 1848-51 - Experiences of the Paris Commune of 1871: Marx's Analysis - Supplementary Explanations by Engels - The Economic Base of the Withering Away of the State - The Vulgarization of Marxism by the Opportunists - Postscript to the First Edition - Explanatory Notes"
Lenin What is to be Done? (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by VladimirIlyichLenin, John Barber Paperback, Published 2003 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-43739-4, ISBN: 0-521-43739-3
Essential Works of Lenin What Is to Be Done? and Other Writings by VladimirIlyichLenin 372 Pages, Published 2012 by Courier Corporation ISBN-13: 978-0-486-11981-6, ISBN: 0-486-11981-5
"A local organization that is cut off from the organizations in other towns finds it
very difficult, and sometimes ahnost impossible, to maintain a correct sense of
proportion (and the example of Raboehaya Mysl shows what a monstrous
exaggeration is sometimes made in the direction of trade unionism). But an all-
Russian organization of revolutionaries, that stands undeviatingly on the basis of
Marxism, that leads the whole of the pol ..."