2.2. To what extent was Bolshevist Marxism adapted for the age of imperialism? I think Bolshevism was fairly adapted to the conditions of imperialism and specifically to the conditions of Imperial Russia. The underlying assumption of the need for a party vanguard, as expressed by Lenin in What Is to Be Done?, is that a …
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The Road to October
Do you think that the October Revolution would have happened with or without the Bolsheviks? I think a revolution of some kind would have occurred without the Bolsheviks but probably not a coup on the level of what the Bolsheviks actually pulled off. Because Kerensky’s government refused to end the war and it was fairly …
Source Analysis: Lenin’s Rise to Power
That V.I. Lenin left behind volumes of his own writings is helpful in determining his justifications for his historic actions. For example, two of his essays, “The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution,” from April 1917, also known as the “April Theses,”[1]and “Theses on the Constituent Assembly”[2] from six months later, help to …
Inevitable Historicity 