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The State and Revolution
1917 book by Vladimir Lenin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The State and the Revolution: The Marxist Doctrine of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution (Russian: Государство и революция. Учение марксизма о государстве и задачи пролетариата в революции, romanized: Gosudarstvo i revolyutsiya. Ucheniye marksizma o gosudarstve i zadachi proletariata v revolyutsii) is a book written by Vladimir Lenin and published in 1917 which describes his views on the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Author | Vladimir Lenin |
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Original title | Государство и революция |
Language | Russian |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Publication date | 1917 |
Publication place | Russian Republic |
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