title: Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography
author: Tams Krausz
description: A work of exemplary scholarship, written with penetrating insights and steadfast commitment. With richly documented attention to detail it illuminates the formation and much disputed impact of Lenins immense lifework in their dynamic historical setting, highlighting at the same time their enduring significance for the prospects of socialist developments.-,Istvn Mszros, author, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness and Beyond Capital
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  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [A Note on the Translation and Footnotes](../Text/TransNote.html#qA-Note-on-the-Translation-and-Footnotes3)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Acknowledgments](../Text/Acknow.html#qAcknowledgments4)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Introduction: A Beginner’s Guide to State and
  Revolution](../Text/Introduction.html#qIntroduction5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Lenin’s Motivation](../Text/Introduction.html#qLenin-s-Motivation7)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Preface: “Kautskyism” as Context](../Text/Introduction.html#qPreface---Kautskyism--as-Context8)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Lenin’s Methodology: Reestablishing Marx](../Text/Introduction.html#qLenin-s-Methodology--Reestablishing-Marx9)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Chapter 1: Class Society and the State](../Text/Introduction.html#qChapter-1--Class-Society-and-the-State10)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Chapter 2: The Experience of 1848-1851](../Text/Introduction.html#qChapter-2--The-Experience-of-1848-185111)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Chapter 3: The Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871](../Text/Introduction.html#qChapter-3--The-Experience-of-th