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  CHAPTER I
  THE INTELLECTUAL BASES OF REVOLUTION
13 [introduction.]
  1. Lenin and Philosophy
13 Marxism—the Highest Achievement of 19th- century Philosophy
18 No Philosophy Is Impartial
21 The Philosophical Significance of Advances in Natural Sciences
24 Lenin’s Theory of Reflection
26 An Advance in Materialist Dialectics
30 Sociology in a Time of Change
  2. Lenin and Marxist Social Psychology
34 [introduction.]
35 Psychology and Revolution
37 The Revolution in Psychology
40 Developing the Psychological Views of Marx and Engels
  3. Lenin and Economic Theory
43 Lenin’s View of Capitalist Political Economy
48 Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism— an Advance in Marxist Economic Doctrine
54 The Fundamentals of Socialist Political Economy
  CHAPTER II
  CREATING A REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
  1. A Worldview in the Making
60 The Genesis of a Militant Revolutionary
68 Leading Russia’s Revolutionary Proletariat
72 Organisation Is Strength
  2. A New Type of Party
79 The Second RSDLP Congress
82 Overcoming the Party Crisis
  CHAPTER III
  LENIN AND THE REVOLUTION
86 [introduction.]
  1. The Russian Autocracy Under Fire
86 Faith

in the Tsar Flickers and Dies
88 Lenin Mobilises the Party
91 The Proletariat as the Dominant Revolutionary Force
93 From the Bourgeois- Democratic to the Socialist Revolution
95 Lenin’s Revolutionary Tactics
97 Organising a Mass Assault on the Autocracy
  2. Lenin in the Years of Reaction
108 New Tactics for a New Situation
111 The Agrarian Question
113 Defending and Strengthening the Party
116 Lenin’s Critique of Russian Opportunism
  3. The Revolutionary Upsurge
118 The End of the Party Crisis
120 Lenin and the National Question
  4. Proletarian Internationalism on the Line
121 Lenin and Bolshevik Revolutionary Tactics During the First World War
125 Imperialism— the Forerunner of the Socialist Revolution
126 Expanding the Theory of the Socialist Revolution
128 Assessing the Revolutionary Situation
130 The International Implications of Socialist Revolution in One Country
131 Toppling the Autocracy
  5. Lenin’s Leading Role in the October Revolution
133 [introduction.]
133 Every Day Counts...
136 The April Theses
138 Winning Over the Whole People
145 In the Underground
148 The Bolsheviks and the Take-Over of Power
  CHAPTER IV
  THE ARCHITECT OF THE SOVIET STATE
157 [introduction.]
  1. Creating a New State System
157 [introduction.]
162 Dictatorship and Democracy
  2. Working for Peace and Defending the Revolution
175 Peace and the Revolution
179 Defending the Revolution
  3. Pointing the Way to Socialism
187 The Revolutionary in Peacetime
200 A Voluntary Union of Republics
203 In the Name of Peace, of Workers and Communists the World Over
207 Always with Us
212 CONCLUSION
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