Chapter 5 of State and Revolution has a brief introduction and four sections. Lenin opens by telling us that Marx’s major discussion of the withering way of the state is to be found in his Critique of ...

Lenin discusses these two topics in section four of chapter one of The State and Revolution (1917). This section begins with a long quote from Engels' 1870s work Anti-Dühring. The quote begins with " ...

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The harsh criticism of Lenin, who is still revered by communists and many others in Russia, is unusual for Putin, who in the past carefully weighed his comments about the nation's history to avoid ...

Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) January 26, 1991. In the following lines we propose to discuss critically how Lenin conceived of socialism as a new form of society and to what extent his ...

In April 1917, amidst the chaos of WWI and political upheaval in Russia, Vladimir Lenin embarked on a journey that would change the course of history. His top-secret train trip home from exile in ...

A pamphlet by Tom Brown of the Syndicalist Workers' Federation (an early predecessor to today's Solidarity Federation) on Lenin and his contempt for workers' self-organisation. Published in the 1960s, ...

EADaily, November 7th, 2025. Lenin should not have developed Central Asia. No one appreciates it there today. A Kazakhstani blogger calling himself Red Kazakh writes about this.

Moscow, Jan 26: Russian President Vladimir Putin today criticized Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, accusing him of placing a “time bomb” under the state, and sharply denouncing brutal repressions by the ...