This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of insights into Leninist politics.
This edition also contains a glossary. Translated and edited with an introduction by Robert Service
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred, and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander.
Lenin's classic rebuttal of the Marxist revisionism, revealing how the state arises from class antagonisms, represses the mass of working people, and must be replaced by an 'armed proletariat' that brings the means of production into common ...
This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of insights into Leninist politics.