The State and Revolution
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~56,200 words · 267 passages
Cite this work
- APAVladimir Lenin. (n.d.). The State and Revolution. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/the-state-and-revolution
- MLAVladimir Lenin. "The State and Revolution." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/the-state-and-revolution.
- ChicagoVladimir Lenin. The State and Revolution. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/the-state-and-revolution.
What it is about
The State and Revolution (1917): what must happen to the state after a revolution.
Context and history
Written in hiding in Finland weeks before October, and left unfinished because — as he says in the postscript — 'it is more pleasant and useful to go through the experience of a revolution than to write about it'. He argues the state must wither away, which makes reading it afterwards especially uncomfortable. The original is in RUSSIAN. This is an English translation; for citation, the original.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
3856449The State and Revolution — PrefaceAnonymousVladimir Ilyich Lenin PREFACE The question of the State has recently attained outstanding importance, both theoretical and practical. The Imperialist war has greatly accelerated the transformation of monopoly-capitalism into State-monopoly-capitalism. The monstrous oppression of the laboring masses by the State—which identifies itself more and more intimately with the all-powerful capitalist combines—becomes ever more terrible. The foremost countries are being converted into military labor prisons for the workers. The incredible miseries and horrors of the protracted war are making the position of the masses unbearable and increasing their indignation. It is clear an international proletarian revolution is preparing. The question therefore of its relation to the State takes on a practical importance.
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