Vladimir Il’ich Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924) was a revolutionary politician, theorist, and writer whose works shaped debates about organisation, imperialism, state power, and socialist strategy. What is to be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement argues for a disciplined political organisation able to move beyond spontaneous economic protest. State and Revolution returns to Marx and Engels to examine the state and the transition to a different political order. Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism links monopoly, finance, and colonial rivalry, while 'Left Wing' Communism An Infantile Disorder addresses tactics after the 1917 Revolution. What is to be Done? is the clearest route into organisation; State and Revolution then broadens the argument to institutions and power. Imperialism adds the international economic frame.