The State and Revolution

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The State and Revolution
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Vladimir Lenin
Translated by Robert Service
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreRevolutions, uprisings and rebellions
ISBN/Barcode 9780140184358
ClassificationsDewey:335.43
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 25 June 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This introduction covers the writing of "The State and Revolution", the 1927 revolution itself, Marxist influences on Lenin, what Lenin aimed to cover, the style of the book, the Bolshevik seizure of power, the furore over the books publication, its implications for general political theory, the book's fate from the 1920s to the 1960s and the book's influence today.

Author Biography

Vladimir Lenin was born in 1870 and was one of the most influential people of the 20th century. He became a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the principal leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and, from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union.