The internationally well-known Marxist journalist and student presents a very lucid outline of the teachings of the great Russian revolutionary leader and founder of the Soviet State. He places the main emphasis upon Lenin’s teachings, setting them against the background of the period in which he lived. Special emphasis is placed upon the question of the state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the nature of bourgeois democracy,the national and peasant questions, and the problem of building socialism.