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The State and Revolution The State and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 18,795 ratings — published 1917
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What Is to Be Done? What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,413 ratings — published 1902
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Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,221 ratings — published 1920
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 10,741 ratings — published 1917
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The Foundations of Leninism The Foundations of Leninism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,740 ratings — published 1924
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Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 141 ratings — published 2003
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Dialectical and Historical Materialism Dialectical and Historical Materialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,211 ratings — published 1938
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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,691 ratings — published 1968
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The Communist Horizon (Pocket Communism) The Communist Horizon (Pocket Communism)
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avg rating 3.67 — 368 ratings — published 2012
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,272 ratings — published 1947
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Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings Revolution at the Gates: Zizek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 414 ratings — published 2002
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The Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 964 ratings — published 1990
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung (Vinyl Bound)
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avg rating 3.50 — 4,125 ratings — published 1964
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Problems of Leninism Problems of Leninism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 104 ratings — published 1926
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Crowds and Party Crowds and Party (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 177 ratings — published 2015
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Critical Lives: Lenin Critical Lives: Lenin (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 304 ratings — published 2011
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The Russian Revolution/Leninism or Marxism? The Russian Revolution/Leninism or Marxism? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 228 ratings — published 1961
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Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought (The Verso Classics Series) Lenin: A Study in the Unity of His Thought (The Verso Classics Series)
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avg rating 3.93 — 432 ratings — published 1970
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Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 753 ratings — published 1964
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Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on A Reactionary Philosophy Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on A Reactionary Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 485 ratings — published 1909
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Marxism and Revisionism Marxism and Revisionism (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.88 — 69 ratings — published 1908
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The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (Nook)
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avg rating 4.17 — 497 ratings — published 1918
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Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.93 — 316 ratings — published 1905
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The April Theses The April Theses
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avg rating 4.19 — 661 ratings — published 1917
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The Right of Nations to Self-Determination The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 703 ratings — published 1949
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,692 ratings — published 1923
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Is a Compulsory Official Language Needed? Is a Compulsory Official Language Needed? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1914
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FOUNDATIONS OF LENINISM FOUNDATIONS OF LENINISM (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
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The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future (Asian Arguments) The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future (Asian Arguments)
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avg rating 3.94 — 16 ratings — published
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The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 183 ratings — published 1965
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 45,821 ratings — published 1992
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China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 146 ratings — published 2016
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The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 63 ratings — published 1992
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Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
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The World of the Cold War 1945-1991 The World of the Cold War 1945-1991 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 117 ratings — published
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毛澤東時代和後毛澤東時代(1949-2009):另一種歷史書寫(上) 毛澤東時代和後毛澤東時代(1949-2009):另一種歷史書寫(上)
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avg rating 4.53 — 36 ratings — published
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Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 695 ratings — published
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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 178 ratings — published
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Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 8,562 ratings — published 2014
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Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 463 ratings — published 2010
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China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 202 ratings — published 2015
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The Anti-capitalistic Mentality The Anti-capitalistic Mentality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,325 ratings — published 1956
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What Does China Think? What Does China Think? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 434 ratings — published 2007
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Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 397 ratings — published 1995
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中国国家治理的制度逻辑:一个组织学研究 中国国家治理的制度逻辑:一个组织学研究 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.58 — 113 ratings — published 2017
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The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 286 ratings — published 1957
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 2,791 ratings — published 2019
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Conversations with Stalin Conversations with Stalin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 810 ratings — published 1962
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The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,551 ratings — published 1988
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Philip Pomper
Lenin's analysis in The Development of Capitalism in Russia is a kind of profession de foi in a new and powerful idiom. To appeal to the intelligentsia, modern doctrines must combine faith and realism, or science, and Lenin's faith in the correctness of his "science" sustained him through lean years. The notion of faith raises the vexing issue of resemblances between Marxism and earlier Judeo-Christian traditions.

A rough human sense that there will be justice, that wrongs will be righted, that sufferings and humiliations will be revenged, that the rich will not enter either a heavenly kingdom or earthly socialist paradise, underlies a great many religious and secular doctrines, expressed in a variety of "sacred" and "scientific" idioms. Another common denominator of such doctrines is their identification of victims who are chosen to be saved and oppressors who are doomed, whether by God's love and justice or history's dialectic. Needless to say, this kind of hopeful and militant vision, when sustained over a long period of time, yields a history of struggle, frustration, adaptation, sectarianism, and defection. Like their religious predecessors, the new secular movements spread out over a spectrum of positions reflecting defeated expectations, changed historical conditions, and the psychologies of individuals creating the movements' doctrines and strategies.”
Philip Pomper, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power

Noam Chomsky
“Bakunin's warnings about the "Red bureaucracy" that would institute "the worst of all despotic governments" were long before Lenin, and were directed against the followers of Mr. Marx. There were, in fact, followers of many different kinds; Pannekoek, Luxemburg, Mattick and others are very far from Lenin, and their views often converge with elements of anarcho-syndicaIism. Korsch and others wrote sympathetically of the anarchist revolution in Spain, in fact. There are continuities from Marx to Lenin, but there are also continuities to Marxists who were harshly critical of Lenin and Bolshevism. Teodor Shanin's work in the past years on Marx's later attitudes towards peasant revolution is also relevant here. I'm far from being a Marx scholar, and wouldn't venture any serious judgement on which of these continuities reflects the "real Marx," if there even can be an answer to that question.”
Noam Chomsky, Chomsky On Anarchism

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