- Description
Description
What Is to Be Done? has long been interpreted as evidence of Lenin's "elitist" attitude toward workers. Lih uses a wide range of previously unavailable contextual sources to fundamentally overturn this reading of history's most misunderstood revolutionary text. He argues that Lenin's polemic must be seen within the context of a rising worker's movement in Russia, and shows that Lenin's perspective fit squarely within the mainstream of the socialist movement of his time.
Rather than the manifesto of an authoritarian leader, Lih reveals a guide to action to help cohere and strengthen a promising movement, which still maintains remarkable relevance to today's world.
Author: Lars T. Lih
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 880
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.80d
ISBN13: 9781931859585
ISBN10: 1931859582
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Political
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
About the Author
Lars T. Lih is the editor of Stalin's Letters to Molotov, the author of Bread and Authority in Russia 1914-1921. He has taught political science at Wellesley College and currently teaches at the McGill School of Music in Montréal.
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