Lenin Rediscovered : What Is to Be Done? In Context

by Lih, Lars T.

• ISBN13: 9781931859585
• ISBN10: 1931859582
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Haymarket Books

Summary

V.I. Lenin's What Is to Be Done? has long been seen as the founding document of twentieth-century revolutionaries, revealing Lenin's elitist and manipulative attitude toward workers. In this new translation, with extensive commentary, Lars T. Lih uses hitherto unavailable contextual information to fundamentally challenge this reading.Lars T. Lih is the editor of Stalin's Letters to Molotov and the author of Bread and Authority in Russia, 19141921. He has taught political science at Wellesley College and currently teaches at the McGill School of Music in Montral.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. xi
Note on the Text	p. xii
Glossary	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Commentary
Introduction	p. 3
Erfurtianism
'The Merger of Socialism and the Worker Movement'	p. 41
A Russian Erfurtian	p. 111
The Iskra Period	p. 159
Lenin's Significant Others
Russian Foes of Erfurtianism	p. 217
A Feud Within Russian Erfurtianism	p. 279
The Purposive Worker and the Spread of Awareness	p. 335
The World of What Is to Be Done?
Lenin's Erfurtian Drama	p. 387
The Organisational Question: Lenin and the Underground	p. 433
After the Second Congress	p. 489
Conclusion	p. 554
Section Analysis	p. 561
Scandalous Passages	p. 613
Translation
Note on the Translation	p. 671
Lenin's What Is to Be Done?	p. 673
Foreword	p. 677
Dogmatism and 'Freedom of Criticism'	p. 681
The Stikhiinost of the Masses and the Purposiveness of Social Democracy	p. 700
Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics	p. 723
The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries	p. 763
The 'Plan' for an All-Russian Political Newspaper	p. 813
Conclusion	p. 837
Bibliography	p. 841
Index	p. 853
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