The State and Revolution

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is one of the most prominent and ambiguous figures in the history of the 20th century. Despite the complexity and contradictions in the assessments of his activities, it is hard to deny the fact that by leading the political coup of 1917 and subsequently heading the Soviet state, this man had a powerful influence on the history of humanity. Thus, it is all the more interesting to refer to his journalism. This edition includes the most significant texts of the leader of the proletariat ("What Is to Be Done?", "The State and Revolution", "April Theses", "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism", and others), which provide insight into his personality and beliefs. In these works, Lenin appears as the leader of the Bolshevik party, as a strategist and tactician of revolutionary struggle, as a Marxist researcher, follower, and transformer of the socio-economic and political teachings of Marx and Engels, as a theorist of "scientific communism", and even as a literary critic. The edition is accompanied by an article by Professor of St. Petersburg State University, writer Andrei Stepanov, which provides a modern perspective on the legacy of Lenin-the-journalist.