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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

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

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

Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text

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

Edici n revisada, anotada, indexada y bien maquetada de El Estado y la revoluci n de Vlad mir Ilich Uli nov, alias Lenin.

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

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.

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.

El libro El Estado y la Revoluci n. La doctrina marxista del Estado y las tareas del proletariado en la Revoluci n fue escrito por Lenin en la clandestinidad en agosto y septiembre de 1917, cuando Lenin se ocult de las persecuciones del Gobierno Provisional burgu s. En oto o... Read Full Overview

"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

El Estado y la revoluci?n es un libro escrito por Lenin entre agosto y septiembre de 191 7, mientras se encontraba en la clandestinidad en Finlandia. Es un texto fundamental, en la medida en que fue redactado entre la primera etapa (febrero) y la segunda etapa (octubre) de la... Read Full Overview

Stato e rivoluzione un vero e proprio manifesto sull'applicazione dei principi rivoluzionari e sull'idea di Stato. Come scrive Lenin nella prefazione alla prima edizione, la Prima Guerra Mondiale ha accelerato il processo di trasformazione del capitalismo monopolistico privato... Read Full Overview

Lenin propone qui un vero e proprio manifesto sull'applicazione dei principi rivoluzionari, soffermandosi sul problema dello Stato. "Quando esiste lo stato, non vi pu essere libert . Quando vi libert , non pu esistere lo Stato". L'idea di stato e rivoluzione era quella di... 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