One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Crisis In Our Party
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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Written in the crucible of revolutionary crisis, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back stands as one of V. I. Lenin's most combative and consequential political treatises, originally composed in 1904 in the immediate aftermath of the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. Lenin chronicles the bitter factional struggle that split the party into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, dissecting the congress's proceedings with surgical precision to argue that a disciplined, centralized vanguard party was the only viable instrument of proletarian revolution. With characteristic polemical force, he presents the case for what would become the foundational organizational principle of Bolshevism, dismantling his opponents' arguments with relentless logic and an unsparing rhetorical edge. Beyond its immediate political context, this work holds profound significance in the history of Marxist theory, as it articulates the doctrine of democratic centralism that would shape revolutionary movements across the twentieth century and beyond. Lenin's style is characteristically dense and combative — part philosophical argument, part political manifesto — demanding an engaged and critical reader. Published here by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow in 1951, this edition situates the text firmly within the Soviet tradition of disseminating Leninist thought to an international audience. For students of political theory, revolutionary history, and the ideological foundations of the Soviet state, this volume remains an indispensable — and deeply revealing — primary source.
Author: V. I. Lenin
Format: Paperback
Published: 1951, Foreign Languages Publishing House
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Written in the crucible of revolutionary crisis, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back stands as one of V. I. Lenin's most combative and consequential political treatises, originally composed in 1904 in the immediate aftermath of the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. Lenin chronicles the bitter factional struggle that split the party into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, dissecting the congress's proceedings with surgical precision to argue that a disciplined, centralized vanguard party was the only viable instrument of proletarian revolution. With characteristic polemical force, he presents the case for what would become the foundational organizational principle of Bolshevism, dismantling his opponents' arguments with relentless logic and an unsparing rhetorical edge. Beyond its immediate political context, this work holds profound significance in the history of Marxist theory, as it articulates the doctrine of democratic centralism that would shape revolutionary movements across the twentieth century and beyond. Lenin's style is characteristically dense and combative — part philosophical argument, part political manifesto — demanding an engaged and critical reader. Published here by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow in 1951, this edition situates the text firmly within the Soviet tradition of disseminating Leninist thought to an international audience. For students of political theory, revolutionary history, and the ideological foundations of the Soviet state, this volume remains an indispensable — and deeply revealing — primary source.