Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings (Paperback)

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Author)

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Product Description
Four most significant works, also including "The Development of Capitalism in Russia"; "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism"; "The State and Revolution".


Language Notes
Text: English, Russian (translation)

Product Details

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (May 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486253333
• ISBN-13: 978-0486253336
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #62,832 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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50 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite a good book., September 11, 1999

By	"alchemist375" (Salmon, Idaho USA) - See all my reviews

This is the book to start with if you with to understand the great man who was Vladimir Ilych Lenin. This book contains 3 of Lenin's greatest works, those being What Is To Be Done?, Imperialism : The Highest Stage of Capitalism, and The State and Revolution. It also includes The Development of Capitalism in Russia, which explains what the title states. My only dissappointment with this book is that it did not contain Left-wing Communism : An Infantile Disorder. Read this book and get to know the real Vladimir Ilych Lenin.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Intro To Lenin, September 13, 2005

By	Pearse O'Sullivan (Lexington, KY) - See all my reviews

This is a great intro to Lenin, in his own words, so you don't have to care about anyone else's bias and you see for yourself what the man is all about. Further reading that would complement this would be 'Lenin's Struggle For A Revolutionary International'.

22 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new review-dotting the is., January 21, 2001

By	C. E. R. Mendonça "Carlos Eduardo Rebello de ... (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I made an earlier jokingly one-liner that does not justice to the book- or to Lenin. What I think should looked for in this book is exactly the following: that Lenin was the first marxist ever not to consider the development of class consciousness a kind of spontaneous outgrowth of the concrete existence of a working class. Therefore the necessity for politics - specially party politics - to take precedence in marxist analysis over pure economic analysis. This jump in esentials was made by Lenin very early in life, as his _Development of Capitalism in Russia_, written in his late twenties, is still a prime piece of economicistic marxism; _What is to be done?_ is already a prime owrk of a new, politics-first, approach. One may think whatever one wants of the solutions found by Lenin - abaove all the party of professional revolutionists, disciplined and centralized, but one may not deny him the fact that it was him who first made a new kind of marxist approach to issues that is still very much with us.