240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1984 this book reconsiders the effect of Lenin on the politics and culture of the 20th Century. In a detailed examination of Lenin's famous text, The State and Revolution , the author argues that the peculiar status of this work presents readers with major problems of interpretation and shows how a failure to identify these problems has prevented an adequate understanding... Read more
Introduction. 1. Lenin's The State and Revolution: Problems of a Text and Its Discourse 2. The Text and its Consequences: A Subterranean Authoritarianism 3. The Text and Its Assumptions: The Misunderstanding of a Century 4. The Text and Its Context: A Microscopic Universe 5. The Text and Its Secret: A Politics for the End of Time 6. Conclusion
Biography
A. J. Polan
'One of the most exciting and clear pieces of political thought I have read....simply brilliant.' Bernard Crick
'A devastating critique of Lenin's conception of the post-revolutionary state and society.' Paul Hirst
