Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Informationen zum Autor Vladimir Lenin was born in 1870 and was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. He became a 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. He wrote Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism while in exile in Switzerland during the First World War. Klappentext Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world countries used merely as capitalist labour would have no choice but to join the Communist revolution in Russia. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Zusammenfassung Explains the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism.

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Lenin, Wladimir I. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Lenin Vladimir
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 26.08.2010
• Subject: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918
• EAN: 9780141192567
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119256-7
• Pages: 176
• Dimensions (packing): 11.1 x 18.1 x 1 cm
• Series: Penguin Classics, Penguin Great Ideas, Great Ideas, Penguin Press Great Ideas, Penguin Classics, Penguin Great Ideas, Penguin Press Great Ideas
• Subjects: Lenin, Great Expectations, Colonialism & imperialism, Catcher in the Rye, Little Black Book, Heart of Darkness, Colonialism and imperialism, Nineteen Eighty Four, beyond good and evil, the picture of dorian gray, Wealth of Nations, A Streetcar Named Desire, pride and prejudice free kindle, colonialism books, after books box set, the ragged trousered philanthropist, penguin little black classics, penguin english library, one hundred years of solitude, 48 laws of power, the communist manifesto, 100 years of solitude, the prince machiavelli, one flew over the cuckoos nest, the elements of style