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The State and Revolution

Front cover to a French edition of The State and Revolution.
Author Vladimir Lenin
Original title Государство и революция
Publication year 1917
Genre Marxist theory
A library version of The State and Revolution is available.

The State and Revolution[a] is a 1917 theoretical work by Vladimir Lenin. It describes the nature of the state as an instrument of class struggle and rule which historically emerged due to the irreconcilability of class contradictions. It further elaborates upon the vainness of reformism, the nature of bourgeois democracy, and the need for a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat under socialism.[1]

See also

References

  1. Vladimir Lenin (1917). The State and Revolution.

Notes

  1. Full title: The State and the Revolution: The Marxist Doctrine of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution. Russian: Государство и революция. Учение марксизма о государстве и задачи пролетариата в революции.