Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism
1960
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From the jacket of the first edition: "This book provides the most complete and authoritative account yet published of the theory and practice of world Communism. It presents a lucid summary of the fundamental ideas of Marxism, applying and developing them in relation to the present world situation. Its scope is indicated by the five parts into which it is divided - the philosophical foundations of Marxism, the materialist conception of history, the economics of capitalism, the transition from capitalism to socialism, and the problems of building socialism and communism. Written by a group of Soviet authors and edited by well-known 'Old Bolshevik' Otto Kuusinen, it was first published in the U.S.S.R. in 1960. The English translation follows exactly the text of the original Russian edition."
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Otto Wille Kuusinen
Author · 2 books
Otto Wilhelm (Wille) Kuusinen (Russian: О́тто Вильге́льмович Ку́усинен, Otto Vilgelmovich Kuusinen) was a Finnish and, later, Soviet politician, literary historian, and poet who, after the defeat of the Reds in the Finnish Civil War, fled to the Soviet Union, where he worked until his death.
