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The State and Revolution
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
The Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's Analysis
Supplementary Explanations by Engels
The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
The Vulgarisation of Marxism by the Opportunists
The State and Revolution. Postscript
The State and Revolution
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The subject indicated in the title of this chapter is so vast that volumes could be written about it. In the present pamphlet we shall have to confine ourselves, naturally, to the most important lessons provided by experience, those bearing directly upon the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution with regard to state power.
This pamphlet was written in August and September 1917. I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, "The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917". Apart from the title, however, I had no time to write a single line of the chapter; I was "interrupted" by a political crisis - the eve of the October revolution of 1917. Such an "interruption" can only be welcomed; but the writing of the second part of this pamphlet ("The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917") will probably have to be put off for a long time. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.
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