What is to be Done?: Burning Questions of Our Movement

Among Lenins most significant theoretical works What ls To Be Done? has long been a classic on the role of a revolutionary socialist party. In it he elaborated the principles upon which the Bolshevik or Communist Party was founded. Lenin clarified the difference between a party of reform and a vanguard party of revolution and the role of Marxist theory and education. He discussed questions such as the attitude to terrorism to reforms and to students and other non--proletarian forces as well as methods of work the party press and assimilation of the experiences of other countries.