The State and Revolution

The State and Revolution: The Marxist Doctrine of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution (Russian: Государство и революция. Учение марксизма о государстве и задачи пролетариата в революции, romanized: Gosudarstvo i revolyutsiya. Ucheniye marksizma o gosudarstve i zadachi proletariata v revolyutsii) is a book written by Vladimir Lenin and published in 1918 which describes his views on the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretical inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.