5 PREFACE
  Chapter One
  CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. THE BEGINNING OF REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITY
11 Home and School
15 The Shaping of Revolutionary Views
22 The Samara Period
  Chapter Two
  LEADER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PROLETARIAT OF RUSSIA
28 [introduction.]
28 Among the St. Petersburg Proletariat
33 The Ideological Defeat of Narodism
39 Exposing the Bourgeois Essence of “Legal Marxism”
42 The League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class
  Chapter Three
  SIBERIAN EXILE
51 [introduction.]
51 In Shushenskoye
56 The Tasks of the Russian Social-Democrats
58 The Development of Capitalism in Russia
65 The Plan for a Marxist Party
  Chapter Four
  FOR A PROLETARIAN PARTY OF A NEW TYPE
69 [introduction.]
69 Preparations for Founding an All-Russia Newspaper
73 “The Spark Will Kindle a Flame”
82 What Is To Be Done?
88 London, Paris, Geneva
93 At the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.
100 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
105 The Campaign for the Convocation of the Third Congress
  Chapter Five
  THE FIRST ASSAULT ON THE TSARIST AUTOCRACY
111 [introduction.]
112 The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia
115 The Third Party Congress
120 Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
124 In Revolutionary Russia
133 The Fourth (Unity) Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.
135 Victory at the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.
140 After the Coup d’Etat of June 3
  Chapter Six
  “NOT FOR NOTHING DO THEY SAY WE ARE AS HARD AS ROCK”
144 [introduction.]
145 Historical Lessons of the Revolution
148 The Agrarian Question
150 Against Reactionary Bourgeois Philosophy and Philosophical Revisionism
153 Materialism and Empirio-Criticism as a Theoretical Weapon of the Party
160 Against the Right and Left Liquidators
166 Against Opportunism in the Second International
  Chapter Seven
  THE NEW RISE OF THE REVOLUTION
171 [introduction.]
171 The Beginning of a New Revolutionary Upsurge
179 Bolshevik Press
185 For the Unity of the Party and the Working Class
  Chapter Eight
  FIDELITY TO PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM
196 [introduction.]
196 Lenin’s Manifesto on the War
201 Consolidating the Bolshevik Forces
207 Philosophical Notebooks
209 Against Social-Chauvinism
212 Lenin on the Nature of Wars in the Imperialist Era
215 Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
219 Lenin’s Theory of Socialist Revolution
222 Zimmerwald and Kienthal Conferences
226 Discussion on the Right of Nations to Self-Determination
230 Combining the Struggle for Democracy and Socialism
232 February Revolution
  Chapter Nine
  INSPIRER AND LEADER OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
237 [introduction.]
237 The April Theses
244 The Party Approves Lenin’s Political Line
247 In Revolutionary Petrograd
253 Lenin at Razliv. The Sixth Party Congress
256 Lenin Goes to Helsingfors
260 The State and Revolution
265 Salvation from the Impending Catastrophe Lies in Socialism
267 Before the Assault
275 The Revolution Triumphed
281 On the International Significance of the October Revolution
  Chapter Ten
  THE GREAT FOUNDER OF THE SOVIET STATE
285 [introduction.]
285 Introduction of Socialist Economic Reforms
294 The Third Congress of Soviets
296 Efforts to Withdraw from the War
303 Leninist Principles of Foreign Policy
306 Lenin’s Vivid Oratory
310 The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government
314 First Steps Towards Building Socialism
319 Consolidation of Soviet Power
  Chapter Eleven
  LENIN HEADS DEFENCE OF THE SOCIALIST COUNTRY
324 [introduction.]
324 The Struggle Against the Interventionists and the Whites
329 The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
333 Everything for the Front! Everything for Victory!
338 The Soviet Republic and the World Proletariat
345 The Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.)
350 Decisive Victories of the Red Army
352 Theoretical Problems of the Transition Period
358 “A Great Beginning”
360 The Breathing-space of 1920. The Ninth Party Congress
367 “Left-Wing” Communism — an Infantile Disorder
370 Second Congress of the Communist International
379 Defeat of the Interventionists and the Internal Counter-revolution
  Chapter Twelve
  THE MAKER OF THE NEW, SOCIALIST SOCIETY
382 [introduction.]
382 Conversion to Peace-time Construction
386 The Fight Against the Opposition
393 The New Economic Policy
399 Further Strengthening of the Party
400 Rehabilitation of the Economy
404 Cultural Revolution
411 Lenin’s Style of Work
418 The Peace Champion
426 Third Congress of the Communist International
433 Economic Retreat Ends. Eleventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.)
437 Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
441 The Fifth Anniversary of the October Revolution. The Fourth Congress of the Communist International
  Chapter Thirteen
  LAST YEAR OF LENIN’S LIFE AND WORK
444 [introduction.]
444 The Last Letters and Articles. The Political Testament
448 Socialism Shall Win in the U.S.S.R.
456 Cherish Party Unity
460 Development of the World Revolution
463 At Gorki
467 The Death of Lenin
  Chapter Fourteen
  THE TRIUMPH OF THE GREAT IDEAS OF LENINISM
472 [introduction.]
472 Leninism — the Marxism of the Modern Age
478 The Victory of Socialism in the USSR —the Embodiment of the Ideas of Leninism
479 The Leninist Party—the Guiding Force in the Building of Socialism and Communism
481 The World Community of Socialist Countries— the Triumph of the Ideas of Leninism
484 Leninism—the Great Banner of the Peoples’ Struggle for Peace and Socialism
489 Lenin’s Cause Is Invincible
491 NOTES
501 INDEXES
523 INDEX OF PERIODICALS
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