Lenin's Fight Against Revisionism And Opportunism
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At the height of the Sino-Soviet ideological conflict, Lenin's Fight Against Revisionism and Opportunism stands as a pointed and uncompromising defence of Leninist orthodoxy against what Maoist China perceived as the creeping corruption of Marxist doctrine. Compiled by Cheng Yen-shih and published by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking in 1960, the work chronicles Lenin's relentless theoretical and political battles against the revisionist currents of his era — from the reformist accommodations of the Second International to the opportunist deviations within the Bolshevik movement itself. Drawing directly from Lenin's own writings and speeches, the text presents a structured ideological argument that the integrity of revolutionary socialism can only be preserved through strict doctrinal vigilance and principled struggle against compromise. Beyond its immediate polemical purpose, this volume is a significant primary document of Cold War-era communist literature, illuminating the fierce internal debates that defined 20th-century Marxist politics. Published at the precise moment China began openly challenging Soviet leadership of the global communist movement, the work carries an unmistakable subtext: that revisionism is not a historical relic but a perpetual threat to revolutionary movements. The Foreign Languages Press, Peking's principal vehicle for disseminating Chinese political thought to an international audience, lent the text a deliberate authority — leaving the reader to ask which revisionists its true target really was.
Author: Cheng Yen-Shih
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Foreign Languages Press, Peking
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
At the height of the Sino-Soviet ideological conflict, Lenin's Fight Against Revisionism and Opportunism stands as a pointed and uncompromising defence of Leninist orthodoxy against what Maoist China perceived as the creeping corruption of Marxist doctrine. Compiled by Cheng Yen-shih and published by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking in 1960, the work chronicles Lenin's relentless theoretical and political battles against the revisionist currents of his era — from the reformist accommodations of the Second International to the opportunist deviations within the Bolshevik movement itself. Drawing directly from Lenin's own writings and speeches, the text presents a structured ideological argument that the integrity of revolutionary socialism can only be preserved through strict doctrinal vigilance and principled struggle against compromise. Beyond its immediate polemical purpose, this volume is a significant primary document of Cold War-era communist literature, illuminating the fierce internal debates that defined 20th-century Marxist politics. Published at the precise moment China began openly challenging Soviet leadership of the global communist movement, the work carries an unmistakable subtext: that revisionism is not a historical relic but a perpetual threat to revolutionary movements. The Foreign Languages Press, Peking's principal vehicle for disseminating Chinese political thought to an international audience, lent the text a deliberate authority — leaving the reader to ask which revisionists its true target really was.