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PublisherHaymarket Books

ISBN-101608464989

ISBN-139781608464982

eBay Product ID (ePID)204113522

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Book TitleState and Revolution : Fully Annotated Edition

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPolitical Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Revolutionary, History & Theory, Imperialism

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorV. I. Lenin, Todd Chretien

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10 oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal320.1

SynopsisState and Revolution is an indispensable guide to confronting the political and bureaucratic structures that protect the power and position of the world's elites and suffocate the lives of the vast majority of humanity. It has been considered essential reading for generation after generation of revolutionaries, and this fully annotated edition offers an essential guide to contemporary activists trying to work through and adapt its conclusions to our present conditions. ------ Much of Valdimir Ilyich Lenin's most famous--and most misunderstood--book was written in July of 1917 while its author was on the run and plagued by fears that the revolution would be swallowed by the forces of reaction waging a war to restore Russia's Tsar. By 1918, when this small 'notebook on Marxism and the State' was first published, the autocracy was no more, and the centuries old apparatus of repression it had used to sustain its rule had been smashed to bits by the collective power of Russia's working class and peasantry. In part because it was forged in the crucible of revolutionary foment, and in part because the state continues to be the guardian of the same inhumane systems of exploitation and oppression that Lenin thundered against, State and Revolution has offered inspiration and invaluable lessons to anti-capitalists the world over. But this small book was very much a product of its time, written for a specific context with a focus on certain questions over others. Because of this, any contemporary reader attempting to absorb State and Revolution's numerous lessons without a guide travels a perilous road. This new edition from Haymarket Books features an extensive introduction, hundreds of explanatory annotations, and an invaluable glossary of key figures and terms by Todd Chretien, all of which help place Lenin's work in its historical context. Chretien deftly offers an accessible account of the most important people, parties, and debates within the socialist movement of Lenin's time, and provides a map to navigating the book's most controversial points., Lenin's State and Revolution is a broad assault on revisionism. Its impulse lies in Lenin's boundless political ambition, namely his craving to acquire absolute power in Russia in order to instigate a worldwide revolution...If his ambition was to be realized, Lenin had to insist on violent revolution and the abolition of the existing state. ...What Lenin was obliquely arguing was that a clean sweep must be made of the existing political mechanism in order for the Communist party, of which he was undisputed leader, to take power. And that power was to be unrestrained., Vladimir Ityich Lenin was hiding from the police during the 1917 Russian Revolution while he finished State and Revolution. Lenin's most widely read-and most misunderstood-book describes the "monstrous appression of the working people by the state" and how capitalism transforms whole areas of the globe into "military convict prisons for workers." State and Revolution defends Marx and Engels's argument that workers must dismantle, or "smash," capitalist states through revolution from below, and replace them with radically democratic states. This new edition features an introduction and hundreds of explanatory annotations by Todd Chretien that place Lenin's work in its historical context. Chretien provides insight into some of the book's most controversial points, many of which are still being debated in movements today, from the Arab Spring revolutions to upheavals in Greece and Venezuela, to the fight against mass incarceration in the United States. State and Revolution is an indispensable guide to confronting the political and bureaucratic structures that stand between humanity and the creation of a socialist world based on fulfilling human need. No revolutionary should be without it. Book jacket., As both historical document and political statement, State and Revolution's importance can hardly be exaggerated., Essential reading for generations of revolutionaries, State & Revolution is made newly accessible in this fully annotated edition, It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the, dictatorship of the proletariat.

LC Classification NumberHX314