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The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Lenin began the composition of an early draft of State and Revolution while in exile in Switzerland in 1916, under the title "Marxism on the State".
"Soviets", legislative bodies of workers and peasants were the de facto governments of Petrograd and many smaller cities. The Russian public was deeply upset with the continuation of Russia's involvement in World War One and the continued economic difficulties that it brought on. On November 7th The Congress of Soviets officially elected a coalition of Bolsheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks to govern. Through the Red Guards, paramilitary organizations of revolutionary workers, sailors and soldiers; the Soviet government was able to storm The Winter Palace and officially abolishing the Provisional government. The revolution was not uniformly accepted among all Russians, resistance and disruption would occur routinely leading up to The Russian Civil War. A particular issue that Lenin covers in The State and Revolution was the right of nations to secession (The right to self determination); during the composition of this book The Mensheviks of Georgia declared independence soon after The Revolution forming The Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Among other famous Marxists there were also: Georgi Plekhanov, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Ernst Bloch, Pyotr Kropotkin, Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, Wilhelm Reich, Perry Anderson.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government
Length4 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byAndrew Roberts
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateDec 26, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The State and Revolution - Opening credits
7Chapter IV: Supplementary Explanations by Engels
2Preface to the First Edition
8Chapter IV: Supplementary Explanations by Engels (continued)
3Preface to the Second Edition
9Chapter V: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
4Chapter I: Class Society and the State
10Chapter VI: The Vulgarisation of Marxism by Opportunists
5Chapter II: The Experience of 1848-51
11The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Postscript to the First Edition
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6Chapter III: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's Analysis
12The State and Revolution - Closing credits
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