The State and Revolution
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The State and Revolution
By (Author) Vladimir Lenin
Translated by Robert Service
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
25th June 2009
25th June 2009
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Left-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements
Political parties and party platforms
Revolutionary groups and movements
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
335.43
Physical Properties
Paperback
192
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 11mm
147g
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 Bio
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.
