Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer

Lenin's classic on the Marxist theory of the state, written on the eve of the October Revolution. Explains why workers must replace the old state rather than take it over.

V. I. Lenin

Lenin's analysis of monopolies, finance capital and the division of the world among the great powers. The core text of the Marxist theory of imperialism.

V. I. Lenin

Lenin's case for a party of professional revolutionaries and against relying on spontaneity. The founding text of the vanguard party.

V. I. Lenin

Lectures from 1924 that sum up Lenin's ideas on theory, strategy, the party and the national question. Long used as the standard primer on Leninism.

Joseph Stalin