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What Is To Be Done?

Autor Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 dec 2017
ThisisLenin'sseminaltextonsocialrevolutionandhowtoachieveit,publishedsome16yearsbeforeRussia'sOctober1917Revolution.HisplantooverturntheCzar'sruthlessautocraticregimeproposestheestablishmentofacadreof"professionalrevolutionaries"withthenecessaryskillsandexperiencetocountertheregime'ssecretpolice.
Leninderidestradeunionistsas"wretchedamateurs,"arguingthatastruggleforsimpleeconomicbettermentisnotenough,norarepatchworkreforms-whatisneededisthecompleteoverthrowofthepoliticalsystem.Lenin's"professionalrevolutionaries"arenotsomuch'shocktroops'ofviolentrebellionaseducatedactivistswhowillawakentheworkers'classconsciousness,leadingthemtorejectwestern-stylepoliticalfactionsandtoworkwithinthePartytoachievethedictatorshipoftheproletariat.
EssentialreadingforanyonewishingtounderstandtheOctoberRevolutionandtheensuingupheavalsofthetwentiethcentury.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781911405535
ISBN-10: 1911405535
Pagini: 158
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: AZILOTH BOOKS

Descriere

This is Lenin’s seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years before Russia’s October 1917 Revolution.  His plan to overturn the Czar’s ruthless autocratic regime proposes the establishment of a cadre of “professional revolutionaries” with the necessary skills and experience to counter the regime’s secret police. 

Lenin derides trade unionists as “wretched amateurs”, arguing that a struggle for simple economic betterment is not enough, nor are patchwork reforms – what is needed is the complete overthrow of the political system.  Lenin’s “professional revolutionaries” are not so much ‘shock troops’ of violent rebellion as educated activists who will awaken the workers’ class consciousness, leading them to reject western-style political factions and to work within the Party to achieve the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the October Revolution and the ensuing upheavals of the twentieth century.


Notă biografică

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 - 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party Marxist-Leninist state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed a variant of it known as Leninism.