This commentary to Lenin's landmark "What is to be Done?" (1902) provides hitherto unavailable contextual information about Lenin's outlook and aims that undermines previous interpretations. It challenges established views about Marxism, 'revolutionary Social Democracy' and Bolshevism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Illustrations, Note on the Text, Glossary, Acknowledgements COMMENTARY Introduction
Part I Erfurtianism 1. 'The Merger of Socialism and the Worker Movement' 2. A Russian Erfurtian 3. The Iskra Period
Part II Lenin's Significant Others 4. Russian Foes of Erfurtianism 5. A Feud Within Russian Erfurtianism 6. The Purposive Worker and the Spread of Awareness
Part III The World of What Is to Be Done? 7. Lenin's Erfurtian Drama 8. The Organisational Question: Lenin and the Underground 9. After the Second Congress Conclusion Annotations Part One: Section Analysis Annotations Part Two: Scandalous Passages TRANSLATION Note on the Translation Lenin's What Is to Be Done? Foreword
Chapter I: Dogmatism and 'Freedom of Criticism'
Chapter II: The Stikhiinost of the Masses and the Purposiveness of Social Democracy
Chapter III: Tred-iunionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics
Chapter IV: The Artisanal Limitations of the Economists and the Organisation of Revolutionaries
Chapter V: The 'Plan' for an All-Russian Political Newspaper Conclusion Bibliography Index List of Illustrations Figure 1.1: Kautsky's Circles of Awareness Table 2.1: List of Lenin's Programmatic Writings in the 1890s Table 3.1: Titles in Lenin's Political Agitation Series
