Written in the summer of 1917, in the heat of the Russian Revolution, Lenin’s State and Revolution is a key work of Marxism. Here, Lenin explains that, stripped of all non-essentials, the state is in the final analysis “groups of armed men”: the army and the police, in defence of the ruling class.

"It will be a truly revolutionary government, the only one capable of showing the people that at a time when untold suffering is inflicted upon the masses it will not be awed and deterred by capitalist profits."

Pravda No. 28, April 22 (9), 1917. Signed: N. Lenin. Published according to the text in Pravda.

A document by Lenin on the tasks of the working class in the 1917 Revolution. First published September 1917 as a pamphlet.

Published: Pravda No. 30, April 25 (12), 1917. Signed: N. Lenin. Published according to the text in Pravda.

Pravda No. 34, April 29 (16), 1917. Published according to the text in Pravda.

Pravda, No. 35, May 1 (April 18), 1917. Signed: N. Lenin.

Pravda No. 36, May 3 (April 20), 1917.

This resolution was adopted on the Morning of May 5 (April 22) and was published in Pravda on May 6 (April 23), 1917.

Written April 22 (May 5), 1917.

Published in Pravda No. 43, May 11 (April 28), 1917.

Published in Pravda No. 46, May 15 (2), 1917.

Supplement to Soldatskya Pravda No. 13, May 16 (3), 1917.

Published in Pravda No. 47, May 16 (3), 1917.

Written May 19 (6), 1917.

Written before May 7 (20), 1917.

Published May 24 (11), 1917 in the newspaper Soldatskaya Pravda No. 19.

"Workers and soldiers! You must show firmness, determination and vigilance!". Written by Lenin on July 18 (5), 1917.

"How, then, can anyone oppose the transfer of all power in the state to the Soviets? Such opposition means nothing but renouncing democracy!"

"We cannot tolerate a fraud of democracy if we call ourselves “democrats”. We are not democrats but unprincipled people if we tolerate this!!"