Lenin Rediscovered What is to be Done In Context 1st Edition by Lars Lih ISBN 978-9350022108 9350022109
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ISBN 10: 9350022109
ISBN 13: 978-9350022108
Author: Lars T.Lih
What Is to Be Done? has long been interpreted as evidence of Lenin’s elitist” attitude toward workers. Lih uses a wide range of previously unavailable contextual sources to fundamentally overturn this reading of history’s most misunderstood revolutionary text. He argues that Lenin’s polemic must be seen within the context of a rising worker’s movement in Russia, and shows that Lenin’s perspective fit squarely within the mainstream of the socialist movement of his time.
Rather than the manifesto of an authoritarian leader, Lih reveals a guide to action to help cohere and strengthen a promising movement, which still maintains remarkable relevance to today’s world.
Clearly written, well-reasoned, and effectively documented, it is a work that no scholar seriously examining the life and thought of Lenin will be able to ignore.”
Paul Le Blanc, author of Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience: Studies of Communism and Radicalism in the Age of Globalization
If we are honestly to assess the lessons of the Russian Revolution, then it is essential that we unpick the real Lenin from this shared Stalinist and liberal myth of Leninism’. It would be difficult to praise too highly Lars Lih’s contribution to such an honest reassessment of Lenin’s thought. At its heart, Lih’s book aims to overthrow, and succeeds in overthrowing, what he calls the textbook interpretation’ of Lenin’s What is to be done? Lih thus adds to and deepens the arguments of those who have sought to recover the real Lenin from the Cold War mythology.”
Paul Blackledge, author, Historical Materialism and Social Evolution
Table of contents:
Part I Erfurtianism
1. ‘The Merger of Socialism and the Worker Movement’
2. A Russian Erfurtian
3. The Iskra Period
Part II Lenin’s Significant Others
4. Russian Foes of Erfurtianism
5. A Feud Within Russian Erfurtianism
6. The Purposive Worker and the Spread of Awareness
Part III The World of What Is to Be Done?
7. Lenin’s Erfurtian Drama
8. The Organisational Question: Lenin and the Underground
9. After the Second Congress
Conclusion
Annotations Part One: Section Analysis
Annotations Part Two: Scandalous Passages
TRANSLATION
Note on the Translation
Lenin’s What Is to Be Done?
Foreword
Chapter I:
Dogmatism and ‘Freedom of Criticism’
Chapter II:
The Stikhiinost of the Masses and the Purposiveness of Social Democracy
Chapter III:
Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics
Chapter IV:
The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries
Chapter V:
The ‘Plan’ for an All-Russian Political Newspaper
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