Revolution And The State

Author : V. I. Lenin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781804292877

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The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin Pdf

Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional socialist concept of the state on its head, arguing for the need to smash the organs of the bourgeois state to create a ‘semi-state’ of soviets, or workers’ councils, in which ordinary people would take on the functions of the state machine in a new and radically democratic manner. This new edition includes a substantial introduction by renowned theorist Antonio Negri, who argues for the continued relevance of these ideas.

Author : Danny Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351664738

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Revolution and the State by Danny Evans Pdf

This book analyses the processes of revolution and state reconstruction that took place in the Republican zone during the Spanish civil war. It focuses on the radical anarchists who sought to advance the revolutionary agenda. Their activity came into conflict with the leaders of the libertarian organisations committed to the reconstruction of the Republican state following its near collapse in July 1936. This process implied participation not only in the organs of governance but also in the ideological reconstitution of the Republic as a patriarchal and national entity. Using original sources, the book shows that the opposition to this process was both broader and more ideologically consistent than has hitherto been assumed, and that, in spite of its heterogeneity, it united around a common revolutionary programme. This resistance to state reconstruction was informed by the essential insight of anarchism: that the function and purpose of the modern state cannot be transformed from within. By situating the struggles of the radical anarchists within the contested process of state reconstruction, the book affirms the continued relevance of this insight to the study of the Spanish revolution.

Author : Risto Alapuro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004386174

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State and Revolution in Finland by Risto Alapuro Pdf

By analysing the experience of Finland, Risto Alapuro shows how upheavals in powerful countries shape the internal politics of smaller countries. This linkage, a highly topical subject in the twenty-first century world, is concretely studied by putting the abortive Finnish revolution of 1917-18 into a long historical and a broad comparative perspective.

Author : Robert W. Whitney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0807849251

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State and Revolution in Cuba by Robert W. Whitney Pdf

Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation's political evolution, yet they are often glossed

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521458161

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Women, the State and Revolution by Wendy Z. Goldman Pdf

Focusing on how women, peasants and orphans responded to Bolshevk attempts to remake the family, this text reveals how, by 1936, legislation designed to liberate women had given way to increasingly conservative solutions strengthening traditional family values.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Revolutions
ISBN : PSU:000029406944

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State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf

Author : Carmen Soliz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822988106

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Fields of Revolution by Carmen Soliz Pdf

Winner, 2023 Susan Socolow-Lyman Johnson Book Prize Fields of Revolution examines the second largest case of peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian reform—arguably the most important policy to arise out of Bolivia’s 1952 revolution. Competing understandings of agrarian reform shaped ideas of property, productivity, welfare, and justice. Peasants embraced the nationalist slogan of “land for those who work it” and rehabilitated national union structures. Indigenous communities proclaimed instead “land to its original owners” and sought to link the ruling party discourse on nationalism with their own long-standing demands for restitution. Landowners, for their part, embraced the principle of “land for those who improve it” to protect at least portions of their former properties from expropriation. Carmen Soliz combines analysis of governmental policies and national discourse with everyday local actors’ struggles and interactions with the state to draw out the deep connections between land and people as a material reality and as the object of political contention in the period surrounding the revolution.

Author : Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780486849294

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The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Pdf

The State and Revolution is Lenin's most significant work, in which he rejects the institutions of Western democracy and presents his vision of the final perfection of Communism. It offers unparalleled insight into the twentieth century, capitalism, the Russian revolution, and more.

Author : John Micklethwait,Adrian Wooldridge
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101606629

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The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait,Adrian Wooldridge Pdf

From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state Dysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited view of things. In fact, there have been three great revolutions in government in the history of the modern world. The West has led these revolutions, but now we are in the midst of a fourth revolution, and it is Western government that is in danger of being left behind. Now, things really are different. The West’s debt load is unsustainable. The developing world has harvested the low-hanging fruits. Industrialization has transformed all the peasant economies it had left to transform, and the toxic side effects of rapid developing world growth are adding to the bill. From Washington to Detroit, from Brasilia to New Delhi, there is a dual crisis of political legitimacy and political effectiveness. The Fourth Revolution crystallizes the scope of the crisis and points forward to our future. The authors enjoy extraordinary access to influential figures and forces the world over, and the book is a global tour of the innovators in how power is to be wielded. The age of big government is over; the age of smart government has begun. Many of the ideas the authors discuss seem outlandish now, but the center of gravity is moving quickly. This tour drives home a powerful argument: that countries’ success depends overwhelmingly on their ability to reinvent the state. And that much of the West—and particularly the United States—is failing badly in its task. China is making rapid progress with government reform at the same time as America is falling badly behind. Washington is gridlocked, and America is in danger of squandering its huge advantages from its powerful economy because of failing government. And flailing democracies like India look enviously at China’s state-of-the-art airports and expanding universities. The race to get government right is not just a race of efficiency. It is a race to see which political values will triumph in the twenty-first century—the liberal values of democracy and liberty or the authoritarian values of command and control. The stakes could not be higher.

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Revolutions
ISBN : UOM:39015003894246

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State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin Pdf

Author : Theda Skocpol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316453940

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States and Social Revolutions by Theda Skocpol Pdf

State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and Social Revolutions provides a new frame of reference for analyzing the causes, the conflicts, and the outcomes of such revolutions. It develops a rigorous, comparative historical analysis of three major cases: the French Revolution of 1787 through the early 1800s, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s, and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the 1960s. Believing that existing theories of revolution, both Marxist and non-Marxist, are inadequate to explain the actual historical patterns of revolutions, Skocpol urges us to adopt fresh perspectives. Above all, she maintains that states conceived as administrative and coercive organizations potentially autonomous from class controls and interests must be made central to explanations of revolutions.

Author : Hossein Bashiriyeh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136820892

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The State and Revolution in Iran (RLE Iran D) by Hossein Bashiriyeh Pdf

This book analyses the distant and proximate causes of the 1978 revolution in Iran as well as the dynamics of power which it set in motion. The volume explains the complex and far-reaching processes which produced the revolution, beginning in the late nineteenth century. In explaining the more proximate causes of the revolution, the book analyses the nature of the old regime and its internal contradictions; the emergence of some fundamental conflicts of interest between the state and the upper class; the economic crisis of 1975-8 which made possible a revolutionary mass immobilisation; and the emergence of a new religious interpretation of political authority and the unusual spread of the ideology of political Islam among a segment of the modern intelligentsia. The volume relates the diverse aspects of class, ideology and economic structure in order to provide an understanding of the political processes.

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108485951

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A Concise History of Revolution by Mehran Kamrava Pdf

From rebellion to revolution -- Social movements and revolution -- Revolutionary states -- Revolutionary polities.

Author : Todd Chretien
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608468805

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Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution by Todd Chretien Pdf

This comprehensive chronicle of the Russian Revolution is told through the eyewitness accounts of journalists, political leaders, and ordinary citizens. More than a century ago, workers and peasants in Russia turned the world upside down when they overthrew their tsar, took over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to build a new society. In this gripping reader, participants and firsthand observers of the revolution tell the inspiring, heroic, and sometimes tragic story of what happened in Russia over the course of 1917. Introduced and edited by Todd Chretien, Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution includes contributions from Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, John Reed, Louise Bryant, and others.

Author : Angel Smith
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800735118

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Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction by Angel Smith Pdf

The period from 1898 to 1923 was a particularly dramatic one in Spanish history; it culminated in the violent Barcelona “labor wars” and was only brought to a close with the coup d’état launched by the Barcelona Captain General, Miguel Primo de Rivera, in September 1923. In his detailed examination of the rise of the Catalan anarchist-syndicalist-led labor movement, the author blends social, cultural and political history in a novel way. He analyses the working class “from below” and the policies of the Spanish State towards labor “from above.” Based on an in-depth usage of primary sources, the authors provides an unrivalled account of Catalan labor and the Catalan anarchist-syndicalist movement and thus makes an important contribution to our understanding of early twentieth-century Spanish history.