Lenin Selected Works (2)

Author: Compiled by the Central Committee of the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Society of the Communist Party of China
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This volume selects 37 works of Lenin from 1908 to 1916, covering the period of the Stolypin reaction in Russia, the resurgence of revolution, and the first half of World War I. After the failure of the bourgeois democratic revolution in Russia in 1905-1907, the Tsarist autocratic government led by Stolypin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers launched a fierce counterattack against the revolutionary people, seizing the political and economic gains won by the people and brutally suppressing revolutionary parties and workers' and peasants' movements. The organizations of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and the legal mass organizations it led, such as trade unions, were severely damaged, with their leaders arrested in batches and membership in the party and trade unions declining sharply. Faced with the frenzied attacks of the reactionaries, some "allies" of the revolution fell into pessimism and vacillation, even openly abandoning the revolution. This volume includes three articles written by Lenin in different years commemorating the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the revolutionary democrat Herzen, and the French worker poet Podvig. In these articles, Lenin uses Marxist viewpoints and methods to conduct a penetrating analysis of the works and thoughts of these three writers and poets, and to give them a realistic evaluation of their historical status.