The State and Revolution
PostScript to the First Edition
This pamphlet was written in August and September 1917. I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, "The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917". Apart from the title, however, I had no time to write a single line of the chapter; I was "interrupted" by a political crisis--the eve of the October revolution of 1917. Such an "interruption" can only be welcomed; but the writing of the second part of this pamphlet ("The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917") will probably have to be put off for a long time. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.
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Lenin: The State and Revolution - Index Page
The State and Revolution PrefaceThe State and Revolution — Chapter 1: Class Society and the StateThe State and Revolution — Chapter 2: The Experience of 1848-51The State and Revolution - Chapter 3: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871The State and Revolution — Chapter 4: Supplementary Explanations by EngelsThe State and Revolution — Chapter 5: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the StateThe State and Revolution - Chapter 6: The Vulgarisation of Marxism by OpportunistsPostscript to The State and Revolution