The first serious collection of Lenin's writings for decades. Editor Paul Le Blanc argues that Lenin was committed to democracy.

Paul Le Blanc is Professor of History at La Roche College, Pittsburgh. He is the author of Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience (Routledge, 2006), A Short History of the US Working Class (Humanity Books, 1999) and eight other books.

Introductory Essay
Ten Reasons for Not Reading Lenin	p. 3
Lenin: A Succinct Biography	p. 6
Lenin's Critics	p. 21
His Time and Ours	p. 41
Further Reading	p. 66
Notes	p. 73
Lenin's Selected Writings, 1895-1923
Marxist Programme and Revolutionary Organisation	p. 83
1895-96: Draft and Explanation of a Programme for the Social-Democratic Party	p. 85
1897-99: The Development of Capitalism in Russia	p. 94
1899: Our Programme	p. 113
1899: Our Immediate Task	p. 117
1899: Fuse Socialism with the Workers' Movement	p. 122
Birth of Bolshevism	p. 128
1900: The Urgent Tasks of Our Movement	p. 131
1902: What Is To Be Done?	p. 136
1903: To the Rural Poor	p. 144
1904: One Step forward, Two Steps Back - Reply to Rosa Luxemburg	p. 151
1904: Against Subordination to Liberals	p. 162
1905: Challenges of the Revolutionary Upsurge	p. 167
1905: The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia	p. 170
1905: A Militant Agreement for the Uprising	p. 173
1905: Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution	p. 181
1905: Our Tasks and the Soviet of Workers' Deputies	p. 187
1905: Socialism and Religion	p. 192
Creation of the Bolshevik Party	p. 197
1906: Freedom to Criticise and Unity of Action	p. 200
1909: Break with Ultra-Left Bolsheviks	p. 202
1912: Final Break with the Mensheviks	p. 203
1914: Report to Brussels	p. 205
Imperialist War, National Liberation, Revolutionary Democracy	p. 216
1913: The Historical Destiny of the Doctrine of Karl Marx	p. 219
1915: Socialism and War	p. 222
1915: The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination	p. 232
1916: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism	p. 236
1917: Statistics and Sociology	p. 249
1917 Revolution	p. 257
1917: Letters on Tactics	p. 259
1917: The State and Revolution	p. 262
1917: To the Population - Take Power in Your Own Hands	p. 278
1918: Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly	p. 280
World Revolution	p. 285
1918: Letter to American Workers	p. 287
1919: The Third International and Its Place in History	p. 301
1920: 'Left-Wing' Communism, An Infantile Disorder	p. 305
1921: Speech on Tactics of the Communist International	p. 315
Reaching for Socialism, Resisting Bureaucracy	p. 320
1919: Tasks of the Working Women's Movement	p. 325
1919: Comments to Congress on Adult Education	p. 328
1920: On the Trade Unions	p. 335
1921: The Party Crisis	p. 336
1923: Better Fewer, But Better	p. 337
Index	p. 353
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