Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties in the face of their respective national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was a popular outline book, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, which went on to become a core text for the international communist movement. But Lenin also sought to break with the Eurocentrism of the socialist movement that tended to look down with disdain at or simply reject struggles for self-determination especially by colonised peoples. This volume, introduced by the renowned abolitionist and anti-imperialist theorist Ruth Wilson Gilmore, brings together both the texts on imperialism and those on the national question to provide a window into Lenin's global vision of revolution.
By:
V I Lenin Introduction by:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore Imprint: Verso Books Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 246g ISBN:9781804292716 ISBN 10: 1804292710 Series:The Lenin Quintet, 1924-2024 Pages: 304 Publication Date:03 April 2024 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (1870–1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.