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We have once again decided to publish in our series a source-text for the study of Communist ideology. This synopsis of Principles of Marxism Leninism 1 (published at the end of 1959 and widely distributed in the Soviet Union) appears as a sequel to that of the Principles of Marxist Philosphy which I published in 1959 as The Dogmatic Principles of Soviet Philosphy. This book is a corporate work, done by some forty Soviet philosophers, sociologists, economists, Party-theoreticians and propa gandists, under the direction ofO. V. Kuusinen (member of the Praesidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). Except for a few clarifications, we have restricted ourselves to pre senting the most important parts of the original text in an original translation which provides the material, in an authentic and handy 2 form, for our Institute's courses in Sovietology. In comparison to the other parts, the philosophical portions (Sections 1 and 2) have been held to a minimum since they repeat, for the most part, material which is already available in the synopsis of the Principles of Marxist Philosophy. I wish to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for their support which has made possible the research of our Institute as well as the preparation of the present work. J. M. BOCHENSKI 1 The original Russian title is: Osnovy marksizma-leninizma. Ueebnoe posobie (Text book), Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo politieeskoj literatury (State Publishing House for Political Literature), Moskva, 1959,774 pages, 300 000 copies.
List of contents
First Section The Philosophic Principles of the Marxist-Leninist World-View.- 1 Philosophic Materialism.- 2 The Materialist Dialectic.- 3 Epistemology.- Second Section The Materialist Conception of History.- 4 The Essence of Historical Materialism.- 5 Classes, Class-War and the State.- 6 The Role of the Popular Masses and of the Individual in History.- 7 Social Progress.- Third Section The Political Economy of Capitalism.- 8 Pre-Monopolistic Capitalism.- 9 Imperialism as the Highest and last Stage of Capitalism.- 10 Imperialism Today.- Fourth Section Theory and Tactics of the International Communist Movement.- 11 The World-Wide, Historical Mission of the Working Class.- 13 The Marxist-Leninist Party and its Role in the Class-War of the Worker.- 14 The Policy of the Unity of Action of the Working Class with all Democratic Forces among the People.- 15 The Coalition of the Working Class and the Peasantry under Capitalism.- 16 The Movement of the Peoples for National Liberation from Colonialism.- 17 The Fight of the Peoples of Capitalist Lands for the Conservation of their Sovereignty.- 18 The Fight for the Defence of Democracy in Bourgeois Lands.- 19 The Danger of War and the Peoples' Fight for Peace.- 20 On the Different Forms of the Transition to Socialist Revolution.- Fifth Section Doctrine on Socialism and Communism.- 21 The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Proletarian Democracy.- 22 The Main Economic Tasks during the Period of Transition from Capitalism to Socialism.- 23 The Basic Traits of the Socialist Mode of Production.- 24 The Social-Political and Cultural Phaenotype of Socialist Society.- 25 The Socialist World-System.- 26 The Period of Transition from Socialism to Communism.- 27 On Communist Society.- Subject-Index.
