The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

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Paperback | 25 June 2009 | Edition Number 1

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'The replacement of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution'

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 As both historical document and political statement, its importance can hardly be exaggerated.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 translation by acclaimed historian Robert Service is faithful to the style of Lenin's original work, while his introduction discusses the writing and publication of The State and Revolution and the many interpretations of it since. This edition also contains a glossary.

Translated and edited with an introduction by ROBERT SERVICE.

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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.

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Preface to First Edition	p. 5
Preface to Second Edition	p. 6
Class Society and the State	p. 7
The State as the Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms	p. 7
Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.	p. 10
The State as an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class	p. 12
The "Withering Away" of the State and Violent Revolution	p. 15
The Experiences of 1848-1851	p. 21
On the Eve of Revolution	p. 21
Results of the Revolution	p. 24
The Formulation of the Question by Marx in 1852	p. 29
Experiences of the Paris Commune of 1871: Marx's Analysis	p. 32
In What Does the Heroism of the Communards Consist?	p. 32
What is to Replace the Shattered State Machinery?	p. 35
The Destruction of Parliamentarism	p. 39
The Organisation of National Unity	p. 44
Destruction of the Parasite-State	p. 47
Supplementary Explanations by Engels	p. 49
The Housing Question	p. 49
Polemic Against the Anarchists	p. 51
Letter to Bebel	p. 54
Criticism of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme	p. 57
The 1891 Preface to Marx's Civil War in France	p. 62
Engels on the Overcoming of Democracy	p. 66
The Economic Base of the Withering Away of the State	p. 69
Formulation of the Question by Marx	p. 69
Transition from Capitalism to Communism	p. 71
First Phase of Communist Society	p. 75
Higher Phase of Communist Society	p. 78
Vulgarisation of Marx by the Opportunists	p. 86
Plekhanov's Polemic Against the Anarchists	p. 86
Kautsky's Polemic Against the Opportunists	p. 87
Kautsky's Polemic Against Pannekoek	p. 93
Postscript to First Edition	p. 101
Explanatory Notes	p. 102
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