![]() ![]() However, his participation in the revolution in Russia prevented him from doing so. Lenin intended to compose a second part of the pamphlet to further discuss his political theories. He believed that the existing state cannot be reconstructed, but rather it "must be broken smashed", causing a revolution. Lenin argued, "The state is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another". In the pamphlet, Vladimir Lenin discusses the critical need for a revolution in Russia, but also for insurrection to spread throughout the world. Lenin published the pamphlet The State and Revolution in order to display his own political theories, developed from Marxism, known as Leninism. Under his leadership, the Soviet Union became a socialist state, ruled by the Russian Communist Party. Vladimir Lenin became the leader of the Russian Republic until 1918, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and eventually the leader of the Soviet Union until 1924. During this time period, Russia was being run by a provisional government involving socialists in alliance with bourgeois forces. At the time of the pamphlet's completion in September 1917, the future of the Russian Revolution was uncertain after the February Revolution. The State and Revolution was written by Vladimir Lenin, a Russian communist revolutionary. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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