Lenin : IV , The Iskra Period 1900-1902 - , Vol. 4, Book 1 -

by Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1929

About the author

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), statesman and political theorist. After the October Revolution he served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1924.

Reviews

[Voyager · Rating 5 out of 5]

Being a direct translation from the first Russian edition of Lenin's collected works, only a handful of volumes were translated into English, being the volumes that contained Lenin's most important works and covered the most important periods of Lenin's work. Because it is a direct translation from the first Russian editions, these translations are free from a lot of the nationalist and other revisions added by Khrushchev's people to the full 45-volume collected works set issued by Progress Publishers later on and is much more trustworthy.

This book is technically book I of volume 4 since volume 4 is broken up into two separate books. Covering the "Iskra period" of the RSDLP, this book contains, in addition to a number of articles published in the newspaper Iskra, the important pieces elaborating the Iskra plan of building the party with the newspaper as its skeleton and the famous article "Where to Begin?" is also contained in addition to Lenin's lengthy piece on the agrarian question and critics of Marxism. For the pieces on the Iskra plan and "Where to Begin?" alone, this volume assumes a great deal of importance for any genuine communist, not to mention Lenin's brilliant work dealing with the critics of Marxism and the brilliant application of the Marxist method of analysis offered in the articles from Iskra contained in this book.