Lenin Rediscovered

What Is to Be Donehas 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 Clearly written, well reasoned, and effectively documented, it is a work that no scholar seriously examining the life and thought of Lenin will be able to ignore Paul Le Blanc, author of Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience Studies of Communism and Radicalism in the Age of Globalization If we are honestly to assess the lessons of the Russian Revolution, then it is essential that we unpick the real Lenin from this shared Stalinist and liberal myth of Leninism It would be difficult to praise too highly Lars Lih s contribution to such an honest reassessment of Lenin s thought At its heart, Lih s book aims to overthrow, and succeeds in overthrowing, what he calls the textbook interpretation of Lenin s What is to be done Lih thus adds to and deepens the arguments of those who have sought to recover the real Lenin from the Cold War mythology Paul Blackledge, author, Historical Materialism and Social Evolution Best Read [ Lenin Rediscovered ] author [ Lars T. Lih ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr An amazing book from start to finish If you like books that give painstaking analysis to obscure passages from Russian Marxists emigres circa early 1900 s, then this is the book for you In all seriousness, this a lucid and scholarly book which brings out the content of what the future Russian Revolution and the r...Very Good, so far Includes a new translation of What Is To Be Done and puts everything in historical context It upgrades Kautsky s role and influence on Lenin.If you think you understand Lenin, you probably don t, unless you ve plowed through this book Lih s comprehensive research and, in particular, his new translations of heretofore badly translated Russian terms, make it clear that Lenin was not, in 1902 when Lenin s pamphlet What Is to Be Done was published , the elitist minded reviser of Marxism that he is generally thought to be, nor was Bolshevism an authoritarian political trend prior to the Russian Civil War For most of his political care If you think you understand Lenin, you probably don t, unless you ve plowed through this book Lih s comprehensive research and, in particular, his new translations of heretofore badly translated Russian terms, make it clear that Lenin was not...Liquidate the third period Finally finished this stimulating and thought provoking update to WITBD In truth, farof the work is in putting Lenin s words in context rather than a radical re translation however, highlighting Lenin s key terms and how they ve been misunderstood or mistranslated does help to get a real sense of WITBD s place in history And the number one lesson I ve taken from this re reading of the text itself, is that the rules which many take to be the foundation of Len Liquidate the third period Finally finished this stimulating and thought provoking update to WITBD In truth, farof the work is in putting Lenin s words in context rather than a radical re translation however, highlighting Lenin s key...

• English
• 16 October 2017
Lars T. Lih
• Paperback
• 880 pages
• 1931859582
• Lars T. Lih
• Lenin Rediscovered