Biblioteca / 1970-1979
Neil Harding. Lenin’s Political Thought. Theory and Practice in the Democratic and Socialist Revolutions.
Londres/Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1977/81.
2 tomos: vii, 348+iv, 387 páginas.
Nueva York: St. Martin’s Press, 1977/78.
2da edición en un tomo, 1983.
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009.
Caricaturizado como un ídolo sobrehumano en los antiguos Estados comunistas, el revolucionario socialista ruso V. I. Lenin ha sido durante mucho tiempo caricaturizado a la inversa en Occidente como un elitista autoritario. En este análisis, cuidadosamente investigado, el autor contradice estas interpretaciones tradicionales de la Guerra Fría sobre el pensamiento y la actividad de Lenin. Harding muestra cómo las flexibles y continuamente cambiantes perspectivas teóricas, estratégicas y tácticas de Lenin estaban firmemente arraigadas en el potencial emancipador de la revolución obrera en Rusia y en todo el mundo.
Contents
Volume 1
Theory and Practice in the Democratic Revolution
Introduction
1 – Samara 1889-93: The Making ofa Marxist
2 – The Background of Orthodoxy
3 – St Petersburg: The Emergence of a Leader
4 – Theoretical Basis – The Economic and Social Analysis
5 – From Economic Agitation to Political Agitation
6 – Turn-of-the-Century Crisis – The Threat to Orthodoxy
7 – The Reaffirmation of Orthodoxy- Social-Democratic Consciousness and the Party
8 – 1904-7: Revolution and Counter-Revolution
9 – Theory and Practice in the Democratic Revolution
10 – 1908-11: Problems of Cohesion in a Period of Reaction
11 – 1911-14: Revival of the Labour Movement and Glimmerings ofa New Theoretical Analysis
Chronology of Major Events and Lenin’s Writings and Activities, 1870-1914
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Volume 2
Theory and Practice in the Socialist Revolution
Introduction
1 – Social Democracy and the War
2 – Lenin on the War
3 – The Theoretical Basis – the Economic and Social Analysis of Imperialism
4 – The Revolutionary Imperative
5 – Theory of the State
6 – The State and Revolution
7 – The Art of lnsurrection
8 – The Project for Socialism in Russia
9 – The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
10 – The Proletariat and the Dictatorship
11 – The International Dimension of the Revolution
12 – The Trade Union Debate
13 – The Declassing of the Proletariat
14 – The Degeneration of the Party
15 – The Reform of the State Apparatus
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chronology of Major Events and Lenin’s Writings and Activities, 1914-24