What is to be Done?

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A basic consideration of the conditions and problems in the formation of a vanguard, revolutionary party.

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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
61
Preface
71
Consciousness of SocialDemocracy
96
Copyright

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Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
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About the author (1988)

Creator of the former Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (family name Ulianov) was born on April 10, 1870 in Simbirsk (later Ulianovsk), Russia, the son of a schools inspector. Lenin received upper class education and obtained a law degree in 1891, but he was moved to oppose the czarist Russian government, partly due to the execution of his brother, Alexander, who had participated in a plot to assassinate the Russian emperor. For taking part in revolutionary activities, Lenin was eventually imprisoned, publishing his work, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, from prison in 1899. Three years later, his pamphlet "What Is to Be Done" became the model for Communist philosophy. Lenin helped the Bolshevist movement that overthrew the czarist government and brought an end to Russia's war against Germany. As head of the new government, he put land in the hands of the peasants and brought industry under government control. An assassination attempt in 1918 wounded him, and two strokes in 1922 forced him to severely curtail government duty. He retreated to his country home in Gorki, where he died on January 21, 1924. Robert Service was born on October 29, 1947. He received an MA in modern languages from the University of Cambridge and an MA and a PhD in government from the University of Essex. He is a Russian historian and political commentator. He has written numerous books including Comrades: A World History of Communism; Stalin: A Biography, Lenin: A Biography, and Spies and Commissars. He received the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for Trotsky: A Biography.

Bibliographic information

TitleWhat is to be Done?
Volume 4499 of Penguin classics
AuthorVladimir Ilʹich Lenin
EditorRobert Service
Translated byRobert Service
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin Books, 1988
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedNov 12, 2009
ISBN0140444998, 9780140444995
Length261 pages
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Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
  
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