Vladimir Lenin

Author · 89 books

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) -one of the leaders of the Bolshevik party since its formation in 1903- led the Bolsheviks to power in October, 1917. Elected to the head of the Soviet government until 1922, when he retired due to ill health. Lenin, born in 1870, was committed to revolutionary struggle from an early age - his elder brother was hanged for the attempted assassination of Czar Alexander III. In 1891 Lenin passed his Law exam with high honors, whereupon he took to representing the poorest peasantry in Samara. After moving to St. Petersburg in 1893, Lenin's experience with the oppression of the peasantry in Russia, coupled with the revolutionary teachings of G V Plekhanov, guided Lenin to meet with revolutionary groups. In April 1895, his comrades helped send Lenin abroad to get up to speed with the revolutionary movement in Europe, and in particular, to meet the Emancipation of Labour Group, of which Plekhanov head. After five months abroad, traveling from Switzerland to France to Germany, working at libraries and newspapers to make his way, Lenin returned to Russia, carrying a brief case with a false bottom, full of Marxist literature. On returning to Russia, Lenin and Martov created the League for the Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, uniting the Marxist circles in Petrograd at the time. The group supported strikes and union activity, distributed Marxist literature, and taught in workers education groups. In St. Petersburg Lenin begins a relationship with Nadezhda Krupskaya. In the night of December 8, 1895, Lenin and the members of the party are arrested; Lenin sentenced to 15 months in prison. By 1897, when the prison sentence expired, the autocracy appended an additional three year sentence, due to Lenin's continual writing and organising while in prison. Lenin is exiled to the village of Shushenskoye, in Siberia, where he becomes a leading member of the peasant community. Krupskaya is soon also sent into exile for revolutionary activities, and together they work on party organising, the monumental work: The Development of Capitalism in Russia, and the translating of Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy. After his term of exile ends, Lenin emigrates to Münich, and is soon joined by Krupskaya. Lenin creates Iskra, in efforts to bring together the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, which had been scattered after the police persecution of the first congress of the party in 1898. [...:] After leading the October Revolution, Lenin served as the first and only chairman of the R.S.F.S.R.. In 1919 Lenin founded the Communist International. In 1921 Lenin instituted the NEP. During 1922 Lenin suffered a series of strokes that prevented active work in government. While in his final year – late 1922 to 1923 – Lenin wrote his last articles where he outlined a programme to fight against the bureaucratization of the Commmunist Party and the Soviet state. Lenin died on January 21, 1924, as a result of multiple strokes.

Series

Books

On Guerrilla Warfare

Collected Works, Volume 2

Revolution at the Gates

The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky

The Emancipation of Women; From the Writings of V. I. Lenin

Essential Works of Lenin

Ayat - Ayat Kiri

What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats

Against Trotskyism

On Imperialism and Imperialists

Marxism and revisionism,

Party Work In The Masses

Democracia e luta de classes (Arsenal Lênin)

A Revolução Sexual e a Revolução Socialista

Introduction to Marx, Engels, Marxism

Lenin’s Selected Writings 2

El marxismo y el Estado

Revolución socialista y antiparlamentarismo

Development of Capitalism in Russia, The

Not By Politics Alone

L'Etat et la révolution

Revolution, Democracy, Socialism

Left-Wing Childishness and the Petty-Bourgeois Mentality

V.I. Lenin

A Letter to a Comrade on Our Organisational Tasks

"On Strikes"

Paris Commune 150

Imperialism and the Split in Socialism

On Religion

V.i. Lenin

The three sources and three component parts of Marxism. Karl Marx. Frederick Engels

The Impending Catastrophe and How To Combat It

Sobre el amor

Los cuatro primeros congresos de la Internacional Comunista. Primera parte

The Right of Nations to Self-Determination

Imperialism and the National Question

Materialism and Empirio-Criticism

Clausewitz en el pensamiento marxista

Que faire ?

Socialism and religion

Como iludir o Povo

What Is to Be Done?

Philosophical Notebooks

Contributo para a História do Feminismo

Kronstadt

The Tasks of the Youth Leagues

The Discussion On Self-Determination Summed Up

Lenin Selected Writings

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

Selected Works in Three Volumes, Vol 2

On War and Peace

Letters from Afar

Marxism and Anarchism

La cultura y la revolución cultural

El Imperialismo, fase superior del capitalismo (Cuadernos de Octubre)

Left-Wing Communism

Devlet Üzerine

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

The Woman Question

Marxism. Anarchism. Communism

On Trade Unions

Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies

Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?

Selected Works in Three Volumes, Volume 1

Vladimir Lenin Collection

On the So-Called Market Question

The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War

A Letter to American Workingmen

Lenin's Final Fight

Lenin

Manifesto comunista / Teses de abril

Socialism and war (the attitude of the R.S.D.L.P. towards the war).

Where to Begin?

On the Question of Dialectics

Tesis de abril

Articles on Tolstoy

Capital, the Communist manifesto and other writings by Karl Marx

Lenin 2017