What Is to Be Done?

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book non-fiction work political pamphlet

"What Is to Be Done?" is a 1902 political pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin that outlines his theory of a vanguard party and revolutionary organization for leading the proletariat.

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What Is to Be Done? canonical	5
Lenin’s pamphlet "What Is To Be Done?"	2
Lenin’s "What Is To Be Done?"	1
What Is To Be Done?	1
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement	1
Что делать? (Chto delat’?)	1

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instanceOf	book ⓘ non-fiction work ⓘ political pamphlet ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	What Is to Be Done? ⓘ surface form: What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement
author	Vladimir Lenin ⓘ
centralClaim	A centralized, disciplined party is necessary to lead the proletariat ⓘ Socialist consciousness must be brought to workers from outside the spontaneous trade-union struggle ⓘ The working class needs a vanguard party to achieve socialist revolution ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Russian Empire ⓘ
criticizes	Economism in the Russian socialist movement ⓘ spontaneity in workers’ movements ⓘ trade-unionism as a sufficient form of struggle ⓘ
genre	Marxist theory ⓘ political theory ⓘ
historicalContext	pre-revolutionary Russia ⓘ struggle within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ⓘ
impact	became a foundational text for communist party organization ⓘ helped define the organizational principles of the Bolshevik faction ⓘ
influenced	20th-century revolutionary movements ⓘ Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ surface form: Bolshevik Party organization Communist parties worldwide ⓘ Leninism as a political doctrine ⓘ concept of democratic centralism ⓘ
influencedBy	Economism (Russian socialist current) ⓘ Friedrich Engels ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ 1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ⓘ surface form: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party debates
mainSubject	class consciousness ⓘ Central Committee ⓘ surface form: democratic centralism party discipline ⓘ proletarian revolution ⓘ revolutionary organization ⓘ role of intellectuals in the workers’ movement ⓘ vanguard party ⓘ
movement	Russian revolutionary movement ⓘ surface form: Russian Social Democratic movement
notableQuote	The history of all countries shows that the working class, exclusively by its own effort, is able to develop only trade-union consciousness ⓘ Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement ⓘ
originalLanguage	Russian ⓘ
originalTitle	What Is to Be Done? self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Что делать? (Chto delat’?)
politicalOrientation	Leninism ⓘ Marxism ⓘ
proposes	centralized party press ⓘ professional revolutionaries as core party members ⓘ strict party membership criteria ⓘ
publicationYear	1902 ⓘ
relatedConcept	democratic centralism ⓘ party of a new type ⓘ vanguardism ⓘ
relatedWork	One Step Forward, Two Steps Back ⓘ

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Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder → relatedWork → What Is to Be Done? ⓘ

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Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought → relatedWork → What Is to Be Done? ⓘ