Lenins what is to be done? (1902) has long been seen as the founding document of a party of a new type for some, it provided a model of the vanguard party that was the essence of bolshevism, for others it manifested lenins elitist and manipulative attitude towards the workers this substantial new commentary, based on contemporary russian and german- language sources, provides hitherto unavailable contextual information that undermines these views and shows how lenins argument rests squarely on an optimistic confidence in the workers revolutionary inclinations and on his admiration of german social democracy in particular lenin’s outlook cannot be understood, lih claims here, outside the context of international social democracy, the disputes within russian social democracy and the institutions of the revolutionary underground the commentary is accompanied by a complete new translation of what is to be done? that focuses particularly on hard-to-translate key terms this study raises new and unsettling questions about the legacy of marx, bolshevism as a historical force and the course of soviet history, but, most of all, it will revolutionize the conventional interpretations of lenin table of contents: introduction part i erfurtianism the merger of socialism and the worker movement a russian erfurtian the iskra period part ii lenins significant others russian foes of erfurtianism a feud within russian erfurtianism the purposive worker and the spread of awareness part iii

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Lars T. Lih is the editor of Stalin's Letters to Molotov, the author of Bread and Authority in Russia 1914-1921. He has taught political science at Wellesley College and currently teaches at the McGill School of Music in Montr�al.

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