p There is every ground for saying that virtually every problem of scientific communism has been creatively dealt with by Lenin.

p His great service to history is that his theoretical work was inseparably linked up with the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat and with the building of socialism in the U.S.S.R. He enriched the theory of scientific communism, raised and solved a multitude of new theoretical problems and directed the implementation of the principles of scientific communism. He drew up the programme for the building of socialism and communism in the U.S.S.R. and, to his last day, headed the people and the Party, who were carrying out this programme. The Soviet people’s achievements in the building of the new society are indissolubly linked up with his name.

p The new epoch posed the working class and its Marxist party with the task of remaking society by revolution, of destroying capitalism and building socialism. That made Lenin devote much of his time and energy to studying the laws of social development, particularly the essence of imperialism and its contradictions, and to working out the ways and means of resolving these contradictions by the proletarian-led revolutionary forces. He evolved the theory of socialist revolution and elaborated the theory of the modern world revolutionary process embracing not only the socialist movement of the working class but also the national liberation movement and all kinds of democratic movements spearheaded against imperialism. In keeping 47 with the features of the revolutionary movement in the new epoch, he worked out the strategy and tactics of the proletarian class struggle, of the world communist movement.

p He developed the Marxist theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the forms of this dictatorship, of the tasks of the proletarian state, of the destiny of a stale under socialism and communism, and of socialist democracy. He created the teaching about the new, revolutionary type of party and showed its place and role in uprooting the old and building the new society.

p Lenin always focussed his attention on the working man, on devising ways and means of emancipating him, of enabling him to develop and assert himself. In enriching and developing the Marxist theory of socialism and communism, he regarded the new society not as an end in itself but solely as a condition, as a means of emancipating and improving man. He sought to place the economy and the achievements of science and technology in the service of the working man, to improve social relations in the interests of the working people, and to organise society’s spiritual life in such a way as to ensure man’s intellectual blossoming and the fullest development of his boundless creative possibilities.

p Lenin worked out the relation between objective conditions and subjective factors of history during the building of communist society, and formulated the principles underlying the most effective application of the objective laws of social development in the interests of the working man. While developing the Marxist theory of scientifically directing social processes, he worked out the fundamental principles for guiding communist construction.

An important place in Lenin’s works is occupied by the theory of socialist revolution, which has had a tremendous impact on the further development of society, on the course of world history.