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48 ratings, 3.50 average rating, 6 reviews
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published
June 1969
by International Publishers
binding
Paperback, 200 pages
isbn
0717802183
(isbn13: 9780717802180)
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Read in February, 2007
Mildly fun to read, but are these ideas good ideas?
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Read in July, 2004
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Lenin 3 years later
This is probably Lenin's worst written book, both from a literary and political point of view. From this book came the myth of Lenin's "conspiratorial party" of "professional revolutionaries", which has been taken out of historical context and applied uncritically by so-called Bolshevik groups. Rather than this book sufficing the needs of a small group of scattered revolutionaries into a unified party under the repression of Tsarist Russia, it is used to define "core pri...more
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An important historical document (for all that no party exactly like this was ever built in Russia before the revolution) but ultimately flawed and in no way a blueprint for building a socialist alternative in the 21st century. My cry is Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg!
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Read in January, 1999
Very useful and enlightening, if read within an understanding of the context in which Lenin was writing (otherwise, it makes no sense).
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Read in January, 1994
Classic of revolutionary strategy. Still relevant today.
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Read in January, 1990
Crudely written polemic of mere historical interest.
