What Is to Be Done?

Name: What Is to Be Done?
Author: Vladimir Lenin

by Vladimir Lenin

Blueprint for a revolutionary party of professional organizers and ideological discipline

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Vladimir Lenin

Russian revolutionary theorist whose What Is to Be Done? proposed the vanguard party as the instrument of revolutionary change. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism extended Marxist analysis to colonialism. He led the October Revolution and founded the Soviet state.

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