{"product_id":"the-state-and-revolution-isbn-9780140184358","title":"The State and Revolution","description":"In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution. This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of insights into Leninist politics. It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the dictatorship of the proletariat. As both historical document and political statement, its importance can hardly be exaggerated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Translator's Notes\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Writing of the Book\u003cbr\u003eThe Contents\u003cbr\u003eThe Style\u003cbr\u003eA Marxist Interpretation?\u003cbr\u003eThe Book and Political Theory\u003cbr\u003ePolitical Conditions at the Time\u003cbr\u003eThe Book is Published\u003cbr\u003eThe Uses of the Book\u003cbr\u003eThe Book and Its Fate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE STATE AND REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the First Edition\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter I: Class Society and the State\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The State as the Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Contradictions\u003cbr\u003e2. Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, Etc.\u003cbr\u003e3. The State as an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class\u003cbr\u003e4. The \"Withering Away\" of the State and Violent Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter II: The State and Revolution—The Experience of 1848-51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Eve of the Revolution\u003cbr\u003e2. The Revolution in Summary\u003cbr\u003e3. The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter III: The State and Revolution—The Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871—Marx's Analysis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. What was Heroic about the Communards' Attempt?\u003cbr\u003e2. With What is the Smashed State Machine to be Replaced?\u003cbr\u003e3. The Eradication of Parliamentarianism\u003cbr\u003e4. Organization of the Unity of the Nation\u003cbr\u003e5. The Destruction of the Parasite State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter IV: Continuation: Supplementary Clarifications by Engels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Housing Question\u003cbr\u003e2. The Polemic with the Anarchists\u003cbr\u003e3. Letter to Bebel\u003cbr\u003e4. Critique of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme\u003cbr\u003e5. The 1891 Preface to Marx's \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War in France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Engels on the Overpowering of Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter V: The Economic Basis for the Withering Away of the State\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Presentation of the Question by Marx\u003cbr\u003e2. The Transition from Capitalism to Communism\u003cbr\u003e3. The First Phase of Communist Society\u003cbr\u003e4. The Higher Phase of Communist Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter VI: The Vulgarization of Marxism by the Opportunists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Plekhanov's Polemic with the Anarchists\u003cbr\u003e2. Kautsky's Polemic with the Opportunists\u003cbr\u003e3. Kautsky's Polemic with Pannekoek\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII: The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 #unfinished text#\u003cbr\u003ePostscript to the First EditionGlossary\u003cb\u003eVladimir Lenin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1870 and was one of the most influential people of the 20th century. He became a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the principal leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and, from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304171229413,"sku":"NP9780140184358","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140184358.jpg?v=1767741650","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-state-and-revolution-isbn-9780140184358","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}