As both historical document and political statement, its importance can hardly be exaggerated. When Marx discussed revolution, he talked of the eminent rise of the lower class, but Lenin changed that argument in his pamphlet. 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. Born to a middle-class family, he was strongly influenced by his eldest. Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary and head of the Bolshevik Party who rose to prominence during the Russian Revolution of 1917, one of the most explosive political events. 21, 1924, Gorki, near Moscow), Founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and architect and builder of the Soviet state. But Marxist thought provided no blueprint for constructing a socialist state. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, (born April 22, 1870, Simbirsk, Russiadied Jan.
Their policies included violent expropriation of private property and class warfare. This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of insights into Leninist politics. Vladimir Lenin and other Communist Party leaders were committed to Marxism, one branch of socialism, and they understood the world in terms of class categories.
In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and 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.
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