{"title":"Books by V I Lenin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781804292747","title":"Not By Politics Alone","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of letters, diaries and various writings depicting the Lenin beyond political commitments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis vivid selection, compiled and introduced by Tamara Deutscher, written by Lenin and those who knew him, brings us the revolution in his everyday life – the man who lived by politics but not by politics alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, we see the Lenin of leisure as well as work, geared to his life’s purpose and yet enjoying to the full all the pleasures of a healthy human existence – neither the humourless, monolithic cult hero of Soviet mythology nor the bogeyman of official anti-communism. What did Lenin read? How did he relax? What did he think and feel? This surprising collection, covering everything from his passionate baritone singing voice to his love of hunting wild game and beyond, reveals the man beyond the myth.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307019284853,"sku":"9781804292747","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804292747_7ce5c9b3-b8ec-41c1-bfc4-033109753e3c.jpg?v=1786026733"},{"product_id":"9781804292716","title":"Imperialism and the National Question","description":"\u003cb\u003eLenin’s texts breaking with Eurocentrism in the socialist movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, which went on to become a core text for the international communist movement. But Lenin also sought to break with the Eurocentrism of the socialist movement, which tended to look down with disdain at or simply reject struggles for self-determination, especially among colonized peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume, with an introduction by the renowned abolitionist and anti-imperialist theorist Ruth Wilson Gilmore, brings together the texts on imperialism and those on the national question to provide a window into Lenin’s global vision of revolution.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307353911669,"sku":"9781804292716","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804292716_917ddf92-5e17-4f70-8ac3-7c733a58f617.jpg?v=1786026733"},{"product_id":"the-state-and-revolution-1","title":"The State and Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eLenin's most important and controversial theoretical text\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLenin’s booklet \u003ci\u003eThe State and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional socialist concept of the  state on its head, arguing for the need to smash the organs of the bourgeois state to create a ‘semi-state’ of  soviets, or workers’ councils, in which ordinary people would take on the functions of the state machine in a new and radically democratic manner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new edition includes a substantial introduction by renowned theorist Antonio Negri, who argues for the continued relevance of these ideas.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487862038901,"sku":"9781804292846","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804292846.jpg?v=1786355084"},{"product_id":"materialism-and-empirio-criticism","title":"Materialism and Empirio-criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this classic text, Lenin brilliantly explains the fundamental principles of the materialist philosophy of Marxism. He defends them against idealist attacks from the subjective idealism of Machism, a philosophical trend, which at Lenin's time was becoming very fashionable, even within the workers movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep by step, layer by layer, quoting at length from the many trendy philosophical and scientific publications of the day, the book exposes idealism in all its guises. The aim was very simple: to bring out in the open the real difference between Marxist dialectical materialism and subjective idealism, which in the last instance always leads to some form of religious world outlook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnalysing the different shades and expressions of Machism internationally, Lenin stressed that \"in every philosophical question raised by the new physics, we [trace] the struggle between materialism and idealism.\" And he showed that: \"Behind the mass of new terminological devices, behind the litter of erudite scholasticism, we invariably discerned two principal alignments, two fundamental trends in the solution of philosophical problems. Whether nature, matter, the physical, the external world should be taken as primary, and consciousness, mind, sensation (experience - as the widespread terminology of our time has it), the psychical, etc., should be regarded as secondary - that is the root question which in fact continues to divide the philosophers into two great camps.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57705605038453,"sku":"9781913026202","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913026202.jpg?v=1793377293"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-v-i-lenin.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}