The Dictatorship of the Proletariat


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Kautsky's assault on the dictatorship of the proletariat as practiced by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution is one of the most remarkable and controversial documents in the history of Marxism. Written in 1918, it brought attacks from Trotsky and Bukharin and provoked Lenin to Write The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky.










The Dictatorship of the Proletariat


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Offers an analysis of Marx's controversial theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, arguing that it can no longer be displaced or ignored as the viable democratic centre of Marxist political thought. The book traces the development of the theory from the early work of Marx and Engels to 1924.




Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917


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This book is the first full-length study of Lenin's party building project and writings on elections, looking in detail at his leadership of the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in the four state Dumas from 1906 to the beginning of the First World War.




The State and Revolution


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Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905


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This book explores the time in which Lenin initiated his use of the electorate, beginning with the Marxist roots of his politics, from his leadership of Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in the First and Second State Dumas to Russia's first experiment in representative democracy from 1906 to 1907.