Lenin rediscovered : : what is to be done? in context / / by Lars T. Lih.

Lenin's What is to Be Done? (1902) has long been seen as the founding document of a 'party of a new type'. For some, it provided a model of 'vanguard party' that was the essence of Bolshevism, for others it manifested Lenin's élitist and manipulatory attitude towards t...

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Superior document:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 9
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Russian
Series:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • The Merger of Socialism and the Worker Movement
  • A Russian Erfurtian
  • The Iskra Period
  • Russian Foes of Erfurtianism
  • A Feud Within Russian Erfurtianism
  • The Purposive Worker and the Spread of Awareness
  • Lenin's Erfurtian Drama
  • The Organisational Question: Lenin and the Underground
  • After the Second Congress
  • Conclusion
  • Annotations Part One: Section Analysis
  • Annotations Part Two: Scandalous Passages
  • Note on the Translation
  • What Is to Be Done? / N. Lenin
  • Foreword
  • Dogmatism and 'Freedom of Criticism'
  • The Stikhiinost of the Masses and the Purposiveness of Social Democracy
  • Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics
  • The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries
  • The 'Plan' for an All-Russian Political Newspaper
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.