Vladimir Lenin - State and Revolution (1918)

The book "State and Revolution" written by Lenin in the underground, in August, September 1917. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe need to develop a theoretical question of the state was expressed by Lenin in the second half of 1916. Then he wrote a note "International Youth" (see. Works, 4th ed., Vol 23, pp. 153-156), which has criticized the anti-Marxist Bukharin's position on the question of the state and promised to write a detailed article about the relation of Marxism to the state. In a letter to Kollontai dated 17 February (n. V.), 1917, Lenin wrote that he was almost prepared material on the question of the relation of Marxism to the state. This material was written close handwriting in small notebook in a blue cover, entitled "Marxism on the State." It was collected quotations from the works of Marx and piano. Engels, as well as excerpts from the books of Kautsky, Pannekoek and Bernstein's criticisms, conclusions and generalizations of Lenin.
According to the plan, the book "State and Revolution" was to consist of seven chapters, but the last, the seventh chapter, "The experience of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917," he wrote was not preserved a detailed implementation plan of the chapter (see para. Lenin Miscellany XXI 1933, pp. 25-26). On the issue of publication of the book Lenin in a note to the publisher wrote that if he was "too late to end this, VII th chapter, or if it is excessively swollen, then the first six chapters should be published separately as the release of the first ...".
On the first page of the manuscript the author is indicated alias "F. F. Ivanovski. " Under this pseudonym Lenin intended to release the book, because otherwise the Provisional Government would have confiscated it. The book was published only in 1918 and the need for this alias disappeared. The second edition of the Introduction to Lenin in the second chapter of a new section "the Question by Marx in 1852," published in 1919.