Lenin: What Is To Be Done? Vladimir Ilyich Lenin What Is To Be Done? BURNING QUESTIONS of our MOVEMENTWritten: Written between the autumn of 1901 and February 1902Published:Lenin’s Selected Works, Volume 1, pp. 119 - 271.First published as a separate work in March 1902.Source:Lenin’s,Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961, Moscow, pp. 347-530.Translated: by Joe Fineberg and George HannaOriginal Transcription & Markup:(1999)Re-Marked up & Proofread by: (2008)Public Domain:Lenin Internet Archive (1999).You may freely copy, distribute,display and perform this work; as well as make derivative andcommercial works. Please credit “Marxists InternetArchive” as your source.Lenin’s work What Is To Be Done? Was written at the end of1901 and early in 1902.
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In “Where To Begin”, published in Iskra,No. 4 (May 1901), Lenin said that the article represented “a skeleton planto be developed in greater detail in a pamphlet now in preparation forprint”.Lenin began the actual writing of the book in the autumn of 1901. Inhis “Preface to the Pamphlet Documents of the ‘Unity’Conference”, written in November 1901, Lenin said that the book wasin preparation “to be published in the near future”. In December Leninpublished (in Iskra, No.
12) his article “A Talk with Defendersof Economism”, which he later called a conspectus of What Is To BeDone? He wrote the Preface to the book in February 1902 and early inMarch the book was published by Dietz in Stuttgart.
An announcement of itspublication was printed in Iskra, No. 18, March 10, 1902.In republishing the book in 1907 as part of the collection TwelveYears, Lenin omitted Section A of Chapter V, “Who Was Offended by theArticle ‘Where To Begin,’” stating in the Preface that the bookwas being published with slight abridgements, representing the omissionsolely of details of the organisational relationships and minor polemicalremarks.
Lenin added five footnotes to the new edition.The text of this volume is that of the 1902 edition, verified with the1907 edition.Contents.