An economist and journalist, leader of an underground party, and founder of the first state in history of workers and peasants—few other people influenced the fate of Russia and the world in the 20th century as Vladimir Lenin did. Is Lenin’s cause alive today? That question remains open. But his books—undoubtedly. Elites can argue endlessly about what literature is and what it isn’t, what form is normative and what is marginal; but when the writer Lenin appears, all commonly accepted canon simply gets devalued and abolished. All of this once again confirms the Marxist thesis that true literature is, above all, a social practice.
1. April Theses (0:11:52)
2. Leo Tolstoy as a Mirror of the Russian Revolution (0:50:46)
3. The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (4:52:45)
4. Once Again on Trade Unions, the Current Moment, and the Errors of Comrades Trotsky and Bukharin (1:42:49)
5. Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism (0:14:00)