Publisher: Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House Subjects: Rossiiskaia sotsial-demokraticheskaia rabochaia partiia Proletariat Russia -- History Revolution of 1905 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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Well, finished my first book by Lenin. Not sure why this one, of those on my list, was finished first. It wasn't the easiest (State and Revolution flows better and is less dense) but maybe it was most relevant to what is going on in my life and in the world right now.No doubt there is a lot here that I am not able to process right now. I am no expert on the factions, publications and movements of 1905 Russia and so I can see already that a second reading in a few years will yield more. Parts of this book were very difficult for me without this broader knowledge and I constantly had to look up people and movements for reference. That said, I found the parallels between the movement of 1905, and our movement today, striking. Lenin shows us how a movement for revolutionary change can be hijacked through simple language and through the press and end up becoming a tool of the reactionary forces or, even, the forces it is ostensibly organized to defeat. A bourgeois revolution (as in 1905) or bourgeois reform movement (as today) may be ok, and may be advocated as part of a greater program, but to advocate these things without a greater sense of the worker's struggle and to allow these half-measures to be a stopping place, is not ok. By failing to push for the greater goals of the proletariat class, a movement, no matter how revolutionary it appears, or how much energy it manifests, becomes a simple tool of the reactionary capitalist class and ends up working for its own defeat.
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This book is indispensable for anyone wanting to get a grounding in the methods of democratic revolution. Although Lenin's later actions are hardly admirable, his early work serves as a primer for the means of effecting change within and without the system. This book in particular is a broad overview of his early thoughts on revolution, specifically democratic revolution within Russia. It can be a bit dense at times, but will reward anyone who wants to get a picture of Lenin as a young man before his apotheosis to the pantheon of Socialist godmen.
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