Lenin continues to write during the Russian Revolution. He remembers what Marx and Engels wrote about the state and revolution and together with his own thoughts, he concludes that the importance of the revolution is not only that of a practical political nature but the revolution also addresses the problem of elucidating to the masses what they will have to do for their liberation from the yoke of capitalism.
Written in the midst of the fighting, while he was directing the campaigns of the Red Army, Trotsky lays down the historical justification of the actions of the Bolsheviks to reply to criticism by Karl Kautsky, a renegade from Marxism.
This book contains Lenin's articles, speeches, and letters on the young, as well as those of his works which deal with problems facing the young generation.
Lenin continues to write during the Russian Revolution. He remembers what Marx and Engels wrote about the state and revolution, and, together with his own thoughts, he concludes that the importance of the revolution is not only that of a practical political nature but the revolution also addresses the problem of elucidating to the masses what they will have to do for their liberation from the yoke of capitalism.
The material in this collection brings together the events of 1917 and shows how the February bourgeois-democratic revolution developed into the October Socialist Revolution.
Lenin uses his theories to anaylze the question of the right of nations to self-determination, specifically and historically in Russia, Norway and Poland, and he discusses national oppression, colonialism, chauvinism and opportunism.
