TY  - BOOK
AU  - Le Blanc,Paul
AU  - Mandel,Ernest
TI  - Lenin and the Revolutionary Party
SN  - 9781608464647 (alkaline paper)
AV  - 338 DK 254 L445l 2015
U1  - 324.247075 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chicago, Illinois
PB  - Haymarket Books
KW  - Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,
KW  - Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za
KW  - History
KW  - Rossiĭskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Russia
KW  - Philosophy, Marxist
KW  - Revolutions
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Comunismo
KW  - Rusia
KW  - Partidos comunistas
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1894-1917
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - 1917-1936
N1  - "Published 1993 by Humanity Books in New York"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-368) and index; Note to the Haymarket Books edition -- 1. Introduction: Authentic Leninism -- What Leninism is not -- A living organism and phases of development -- 2. The context of Lenin's early organizational perspectives -- Dimensions of Lenin's activity -- Lenin's programmatic orientation -- Ferment in the Russian working class -- 3. Revolutionary program, cohesive organization -- Organizational implications of revolutionary program -- Adapting to Russian conditions -- 4. The birth of Leninism -- What is to be done? -- The stormy beginning of Bolshevism -- 5. Questions and problems -- Luxemburg and Lenin -- Revolutionary committees distinct from the workers -- Was the Bolshevik/Menshevik split "unprincipled"? -- 6. The test of revolution -- The revolutionary program -- Revolution without Bolsheviks? -- The party broadens -- 7. The meaning of democratic centralism -- Democratic centralism in the RSDLP -- Democratic centralism in the bolshevik party -- Lenin's "iron grip" -- 8. Preparing for revolution -- Overcoming ultraleftism -- Philosophy and revolutionary program -- The Bolsheviks become a party -- 9. The almost-revolution -- Worker-Bolsheviks -- The upsurge -- 10. Party and war -- Revolutionary internationalism -- The actuality of world revolution -- How the party functioned -- 11. Party and revolution -- Overthrowing Tsarism but not taking power -- Reorientation -- Diversity and discipline -- Party and masses in the workers' revolution -- 12. After taking power -- State, revolution, and socialist democracy -- Crisis of Bolshevism -- Communist International -- A note on Lenin's authority -- Bureaucratization after Lenin -- The fate of the Comintern -- 13. Conclusion -- Reflections on the Leninist Party -- Problems of Leninism
N2  - "This study of Lenin's conception of the revolutionary party, and its place in Marxist thought, gives a vibrant sense of the historical context--both Russian and international--in which Lenin's views were shaped and upon which they had such a profound impact"--Provided by publisher
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