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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... Read Full Overview

Shortly before the Soviet revolution of 1917, Lenin wrote State and Revolution. Drawing on detailed quotes from Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels, he lays down a Marxist view of the state, describes how a working-class revolution will overthrow it, and goes further in showing how... Read Full Overview

Shortly before the Soviet revolution of 1917, Lenin wrote State and Revolution. Drawing on detailed quotes from Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels, he lays down a Marxist view of the state, describes how a working-class revolution will overthrow it, and goes further in showing... Read Full Overview

Essential reading for generations of revolutionaries, State & Revolution is made newly accessible in this fully annotated edition

Lenin wrote 'State and Revolution' in 1917, while he was hiding from the Russian secret police. The book describes the inherent nature of the State as a tool for class oppression, a creation born of one social class's desire to control all other social classes. Drawing on detailed... Read Full Overview

2021 Hardcover Reprint of 1932 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "State and Revolution" (1917) describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies... Read Full Overview

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. The State and Revolution is Lenin's most significant... Read Full Overview

Edici n revisada, anotada, indexada y bien maquetada de El Estado y la revoluci n de Vlad mir Ilich Uli nov, alias Lenin.El Estado y la revoluci n es un libro escrito por Lenin entre agosto y septiembre de 1917, mientras se encontraba en la clandestinidad en Finlandia. Es un... Read Full Overview

This essay, written by Lenin at the time of the First World War was intended to serve as an analytical discussion of the role of the state as the instrument of the ruling class and the need of the working class to create a new one.

Echo Point Books & Media's enhanced edition of Lenin's State and Revolution is the only version that includes an index of the contents of this classic (for paperback edition with an index, search for ISBN 163561970X). Created from a combination... Read Full Overview

Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text

The State and Revolution is a political treatise written by Vladimir Lenin, the founder and leader of the Russian Communist Party. First published in 1917, the book outlines Lenin's ideas on the nature of the state and the role of the proletariat in the revolution.Lenin argues... Read Full Overview

Lenin's classic work on the state, clarifying the differences with the opportunists of various stripes. He shows how the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat was raised by Marx and Engels after the Paris Commune.

"Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society."

The question of the state is not something that normally occupies the attention of most workers. This is no accident. The state would be of no use for the... Read Full Overview

Lenin wrote 'State and Revolution' in 1917, while he was hiding from the Russian secret police. The book describes the inherent nature of the State as a tool for class oppression, a creation born of one social class's desire to control all other social classes. Drawing on detailed... Read Full Overview