State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin, Richard Pipes (Introduction by)

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Author
Vladimir Lenin, Richard Pipes (Introduction by)
Publish Date
2009-02-03
Edition
Introduction by Richard Pipes
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
128
Publisher Name
Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN-10
159698080X
ISBN-13
9781596980808
citemno
151002
SKU
9781596980808

Description

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.