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Informationen zum Autor Robert Service was until his retirement professor of Russian History at Oxford University. He is a fellow of St Antony's College and an associate fellow of the Hoover Institution. His other books include biographies of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, a textbook on the Russian Revolution and Russia: Experiment with a People, from 1991 to the Present . He writes and broadcasts for the media and is a fellow of the British Academy. His most recent book is Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin . Klappentext In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution. This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of insights into Leninist politics. It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the dictatorship of the proletariat. As both historical document and political statement, its importance can hardly be exaggerated. Translated and edited with an introduction by Robert Service Zusammenfassung Offers both the rationale for the new regime and insights into Leninist politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Notes Introduction: The Writing of the Book The Contents The Style A Marxist Interpretation? The Book and Political Theory Political Conditions at the Time The Book is Published The Uses of the Book The Book and Its Fate THE STATE AND REVOLUTION Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Chapter I: Class Society and the State 1. The State as the Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Contradictions 2. Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, Etc. 3. The State as an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class 4. The "Withering Away" of the State and Violent Revolution Chapter II: The State and Revolution?The Experience of 1848-51 1. The Eve of the Revolution 2. The Revolution in Summary 3. The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852 Chapter III: The State and Revolution?The Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871?Marx's Analysis 1. What was Heroic about the Communards' Attempt? 2. With What is the Smashed State Machine to be Replaced? 3. The Eradication of Parliamentarianism 4. Organization of the Unity of the Nation 5. The Destruction of the Parasite State Chapter IV: Continuation: Supplementary Clarifications by Engels 1. The Housing Question 2. The Polemic with the Anarchists 3. Letter to Bebel 4. Critique of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme 5. The 1891 Preface to Marx's The Civil War in France 6. Engels on the Overpowering of Democracy Chapter V: The Economic Basis for the Withering Away of the State 1. The Presentation of the Question by Marx 2. The Transition from Capitalism to Communism 3. The First Phase of Communist Society 4. The Higher Phase of Communist Society Chapter VI: The Vulgarization of Marxism by the Opportunists 1. Plekhanov's Polemic with the Anarchists 2. Kautsky's Polemic with the Opportunists 3. Kautsky's Polemic with Pannekoek Chapter VII: The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 #unfinished text# Postscript to the First EditionGlossary...
