num_pages: 597
description: Volume 26 contains the works V. I. Lenin wrote between September 1917 and February 1918. A large part of them deals with the Bolshevik Party’s preparation of the armed uprising in October 1917. They include “The Bolsheviks Must Assume Power”, “Marxism and Insurrection”, “The Crisis Has Matured”, “Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?”, “Advice of an Onlooker”, directives to the Central Committee and the Petrograd and Moscow Party Committees, which Lenin wrote while in hiding. In them he elaborates on Marx’s ideas of insurrection as an art and sets out a concrete plan for the uprising.A considerable part of the volume consists of reports and speeches at congresses of Soviets, meetings of Party and local government workers, appeals and messages to the people, which show Lenin as the leader of the Party and the working masses, the organiser and head of the Soviet state in its first months.
language: English
title: Collected Works, Volume 26: September 1917-February 1918
publisher: Progress Publishers