Lenin

Nicos Poulantzas: State, class and the transition to socialism
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Lars Lih: The ironic triumph of ‘old Bolshevism’ -- the ‘April debates’ and their impact on Bolshevik strategy
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Lenin's Comintern compromise of 1921
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Ian Birchall on John Riddell's 'To the masses': Essential resource on communism's early years
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Lars Lih: Russia 1917 — Bolshevism was fully armed
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Pravda editor Lev Kamenev.

Article by Lars Lih, introduction by John Riddell

April 22, 2015 -- Johnriddell.wordpress.com, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- Did the Bolsheviks, as has often been argued, set aside their pre-1914 strategy in April 1917 on Lenin’s insistence? Recent studies by Lars Lih criticise this thesis, maintaining that the actual course followed by the Bolsheviks in 1917 was close to that of pre-war “Old Bolshevism”.

In the following article, Lih tests his conclusion by examining the editorial course of the Bolsheviks’ main newspaper, Pravda, soon after the February revolution and before Lenin’s return to Russia.

Lih’s text is followed by both a translation and the original Russian text of a March 1917 Pravda editorial by Lev Kamenev, and by a note on further reading.

SYRIZA win sparks interest in Comintern’s workers’ government debate: some resources
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Paul Le Blanc on Tamás Krausz's 'Reconstructing Lenin': Sorting through Lenin’s legacy
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Tamás Krausz's living Lenin
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Nikolai Bukharin: ‘The favourite of the whole party’
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Industrial Workers of the World poster against WWI
Socialists and World War I: Turn the imperialist war into a civil war

It has been a hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War.

Heroic class leadership: Lars T. Lih's ‘Lenin’
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October revisited: John Eric Marot's 'October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect'
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