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Historical Context

  • Transition of Capitalism from Free Competition to Monopoly
  • Military-Feudal Imperialism
  • The Rise of the Workers’ Movement in Russia
  • Spread of Marxism in Russia
  • Critique of the Narodnik Conception of History
  • Criticism of “Legal Marxism”
  • Preliminary Study on Imperialism
  • Critique of and Reference to the Bourgeois Theories of Imperialism
  • The Complicated Battle Between Materialism and Idealism Induced by the Scientific and Technological Revolution
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Fundamental Concepts and Principles

  • Leninism
  • Marxism-Leninism
  • Epistemology and Dialectics
    • Experience
    • Sensation
    • Theory of Spontaneous Generation
    • Crisis in Modern Physics
    • Principle of Economy of Thought
    • Doctrine of Principle Coordination
    • Theory of Introjection
    • Causality in Nature
    • Theory of Complexes of Elements
    • Necessity-in-Itself and Necessity-for-Us
    • Empirio-Monism
    • Theory of Symbols
    • Spiritualism
    • “Legal Marxism”
    • Economism
    • Theory of Equation
    • The Principle of the Partisan Character of Philosophy
    • Concreteness of Truth
    • Comprehensiveness of Truth
    • Definiteness and Indefiniteness of the Criterion of Practice
    • The Evolution of the Formation of Society is a Process of Natural History
    • Two Lines of Cognition
    • The Viewpoint that Practice is of First Importance in the Theory of Knowledge of Dialectical Materialism
    • The Quality of Practice
    • Three Important Epistemological Conclusions
    • Criterion of Practice in Epistemology
    • Concrete Analysis of Concrete Conditions
    • Everything Depends on the Conditions, Time and Place.
    • Categories
    • Concepts
    • Flexibility of Concepts
    • Dialectics of Concept
    • Judgement
    • Laws of Logic
    • Intuition
    • Thinking
    • Understanding
    • Realism and Nominalism
    • Objectivity of Logic
    • Will
    • Analysis
    • Synthesis
    • Basic Principles of Dialectical Logic
    • Unity of Logic, Epistemology and Dialectics
    • Essence of Dialectics
    • Sixteen Elements of Dialectics
  • Imperialism
    • Imperialism
    • Monopoly
    • Financial Capital
    • Financial Oligarchy
    • Export of Capital
    • International Monopoly Combines
    • Law of Uneven Economic and Political Development of Capitalist Countries
    • Theory of “Ultra-Imperialism”
    • Parasitism of Imperialism
    • Decay of Imperialism
    • General Crisis of Capitalism
    • Basic Economic Law of Capitalism
    • Centralization of Production
    • Monopolies
    • External Expansion of Financial Capital
    • Economic Base of Financial Capital
    • Reaction Everywhere in the Politics of Imperialism
    • Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
    • Lenin’s Theory of State Monopoly Capitalism
  • Socialist Revolution and Construction
    • Defense and Development of Theory of Reproduction of Social Capital
    • Lenin’s Theory of the Formation of Capitalism in Agriculture
    • Lenin’s Theory of the Formation of Capitalism in Russian Industry
    • Theory of the Transformation From Democratic Revolution to Socialist Revolution
    • Theory of the Transition to Socialism in Economically Backward Countries
    • The Doctrine of the Victory of Socialism At First in One Country
    • War Communism
    • Concessions
    • Lease System
    • Theory of State Capitalism
    • Collectivization of Agriculture
    • Socialist Commodity Production
    • Lenin’s Theory About Agrarian Question
    • Economic Sectors in the Transitional Period
    • Lenin’s Theory of Socialist Industrialization
    • Lenin’s Theory of Socialist Construction
    • Theory of Building Socialism in One Country
    • Relationship Between Economy and Politics
    • Lenin’s Theory of Cultural Construction
    • Lenin’s Theory of Indoctrination
    • Lenin’s Thoughts on Education
    • Lenin’s Thoughts on Science and Technology
    • Communist Morality
    • Lenin’s Thoughts on Legislation, Judiciary and Compliance with the Law
    • Lenin’s Thoughts on Criminal Law
    • Lenin’s Thoughts on Attitude Towards Traditional Culture and Foreign Culture
    • Lenin’s Thoughts Concerning Improving and Perfecting the Construction of the Party and State Organs
    • Theories of National and Colonial Questions
    • Lenin’s Thoughts Concerning the Relationship Among War, Peace and Revolution
    • National Liberation Movement
    • Lenin’s Thoughts Concerning Foreign Policy and Internationalism
    • Proletarians and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Unite!
    • Definition of “Leninism” Proposed by Stalin
    • Stalin’s Thought Concerning the Fundamental Question of Leninism
    • Stalin’s Thought Concerning the Ideological Source of Leninism
    • Stalin’s Thoughts on the Method of Leninism
    • Stalin’s Thoughts on the Enrichment and Development of Marxism by Leninism
    • Stalin’s Thoughts on Dialectical and Historical Materialism
    • Basic Economic Laws of Socialism
    • Stalin’s Thought on the Law of Value Under the Socialist System
    • Stalin’s Thoughts on the Basic Economic Law of Socialism
    • Stalin’s thought on the Law that the Relations of Production Must Suit the Nature of the Productive Forces
    • Stalin’s Thought on the Fundamental Economic Law of Modern Capitalism
    • The Law of Planned and Proportional Development of the National Economy
  • Theory of the Proletarian Party
    • Lenin’s Principles of Party Building
    • Proletarian Party of a New Type
    • Principle of Democratic Centralism
    • Relationship Among Masses, Classes, the Party and Leadership
    • Theory of the Governance of a Communist Party
    • Lenin’s Thought on Building of the Ruling Party
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Important Figures

  • Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
  • Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich
  • Hobson, John Atkinson
  • Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich
  • Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich
  • Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich
  • Zinoviev, Grigory
  • Kamenev, Leo Borisovich
  • Trotsky, Leon Davidovich
  • Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Gavrilovieh
  • Zasulich, Vera Ivanovna
  • Gorky, Maxim
  • Herzen, Aleksandr Ivanovich
  • Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
  • Ligachev, Yegor Kuzmich
  • Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich
  • Struve, Pyotr Berngardovich
  • Bogdanov, Alexander Aleksandrovich
  • Avenarius, Richard Heinrich Ludwig
  • Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich
  • Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich
  • Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
  • Yakovlev, Aleksander Nikolaevich
  • Lukács, Georg
  • Gramsci, Antonio
  • Korsch, Karl
  • Kennan, George
  • Martov, Julius
  • Sukhanov, Nikolai
  • Mikhaylovsky, Nikolay Konstantinovich
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Important Works and Documents

  • The Development of the Monist View of History
  • On the Role of the Individual in History
  • On the So-Called Market Question
  • What the “Friends of the People” Are and How They Fight the Social Democrats
  • The Economic Content of Narodnism and the Criticism of it in Mr. Struve’s Book
  • A Draft of Our Party Programme
  • A Characterisation of Economic Romanticism (Sismondi and Our Native Sismondists)
  • The Heritage We Renounce
  • A Note on the Question of the Market Theory (Apropos of the Polemic of Messrs. Tugan-Baranovsky and Bulgakov)
  • The Development of Capitalism in Russia
  • Once More on the Theory of Realization
  • The Agrarian Question and the “Critics of Marx”
  • Anarchism and Socialism
  • What Is to Be Done?—Burning Questions of Our Movement
  • On the Tasks of the Social-Democratic Movement
  • The National Question in Our Programme
  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back—The Crisis in Our Party
  • From Narodnism to Marxism
  • Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
  • Social Democracy’s Attitude Towards the Peasant Movement
  • Petty-Bourgeois and Proletarian Socialism
  • Party Organization and Party Literature
  • Socialism and Anarchism
  • The Socialist Party and Non-Party Revolutionism
  • Socialism and Religion
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Preface to the Collection of Twelve Years
  • Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
  • The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution
  • Marxism and Revisionism
  • The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion
  • Lessons of the Revolution
  • Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism
  • In Memory of Herzen
  • Democracy and Narodnism in China
  • Eugène Pottier
  • Historical Destiny of the Doctrine of Karl Marx
  • Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
  • Liberal and Marxist Conceptions of the Class Struggle
  • Petty Production in Agriculture
  • To Maxim Gorky
  • The Right of Nations to Self Determination
  • The Agrarian Question in Russia
  • Elements of Dialectics
  • Karl Marx
  • On the Question of Dialectics
  • The Collapse of the Second International
  • Socialism and War—The Attitude of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party Towards the War
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Imperialism

  • Imperialism
  • Monopoly
  • Financial Capital
  • Financial Oligarchy
  • Export of Capital
  • International Monopoly Combines
  • Law of Uneven Economic and Political Development of Capitalist Countries
  • Theory of “Ultra-Imperialism”
  • Parasitism of Imperialism
  • Decay of Imperialism
  • General Crisis of Capitalism
  • Basic Economic Law of Capitalism
  • Centralization of Production
  • Monopolies
  • External Expansion of Financial Capital
  • Economic Base of Financial Capital
  • Reaction Everywhere in the Politics of Imperialism
  • Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
  • Lenin’s Theory of State Monopoly Capitalism

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