What Is to Be Done?
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"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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| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction work → political pamphlet → |
| alsoKnownAs |
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement
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| author |
Vladimir Lenin
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| centralClaim |
A centralized, disciplined party is necessary to lead the proletariat
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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
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| criticizes |
Economism in the Russian socialist movement
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spontaneity in workers’ movements → trade-unionism as a sufficient form of struggle → |
| genre |
Marxist theory
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political theory → |
| historicalContext |
pre-revolutionary Russia
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struggle within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party → |
| impact |
became a foundational text for communist party organization
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helped define the organizational principles of the Bolshevik faction → |
| influenced |
20th-century revolutionary movements
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Bolshevik Party organization → Communist parties worldwide → Leninism as a political doctrine → concept of democratic centralism → |
| influencedBy |
Economism (Russian socialist current)
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Friedrich Engels → Karl Marx → Russian Social Democratic Labour Party debates → |
| mainSubject |
class consciousness
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democratic centralism → party discipline → proletarian revolution → revolutionary organization → role of intellectuals in the workers’ movement → vanguard party → |
| movement |
Russian Social Democratic movement
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| notableQuote |
The history of all countries shows that the working class, exclusively by its own effort, is able to develop only trade-union consciousness
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement → |
| originalLanguage |
Russian
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| originalTitle |
Что делать? (Chto delat’?)
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| politicalOrientation |
Leninism
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Marxism → |
| proposes |
centralized party press
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professional revolutionaries as core party members → strict party membership criteria → |
| publicationYear |
1902
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| relatedConcept |
democratic centralism
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party of a new type → vanguardism → |
| relatedWork |
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
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Referenced by (5)
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What Is to Be Done?
("What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement")
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alsoKnownAs |
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Leninism
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Vladimir Lenin
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notableWork |
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What Is to Be Done?
("Что делать? (Chto delat’?)")
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originalTitle |
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Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
("What Is To Be Done?")
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relatedWork |