Table of Contents

Introduction; Tom Rockmore and Norman Levine.- Part I. Lenin and Political Philosophy.- 1. Which Kind of Dialectician was Lenin?; Vesa Oittinen.- 2. Lenin’s Philosophy in Intellectual Context; Daniela Steila.- 3. Lenin and Philosophy; Marina Bykova.- Part II. Lenin and Individual Figures.- 4. Engels’  Cooption of Lenin; Norman Levine.- 5. Luxemburg and Lenin; Peter Hudis.- 6. Trotsky and Lenin; Michel Löwy and Paul Le Blanc.- 7. Stalin and Lenin; Vladislav Hedeler.- 8. Lukàcs and Lenin; Tom Rockmore.-  Part III. Lenin and Problems.- 9. Lenin on Socialism and the Party; Neil Harding.- 10. Lenin and the Party; Natasha Gómez Vélazquez.- 11. Lenin and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat; An Qinian.- 12. Lenin and the Peasants; Alan Shandro.- 13. Lenin and Bolshevism; Lars Lih.- 14. Lenin and Imperialism; Alex Callinicos.- 15. Lenin and the NEP; Edward Rees. 16. Lenin, The NEP and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power; Paresh Chattopadhyay.- 17. Lenin’ s NEP and Deng Xiaoping’s Economic Reform; Wei Xiaoping - Index.

About the Author

Tom Rockmore is Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Member of the Institute of Foreign Philosophy in Peking University, China. His area of research encompasses all of modern philosophy, with special attention to aspects of German idealism. 

Norman Levine is an independent scholar who has published six books (three of which have been translated into Chinese) and 40 scholarly articles on Marxist thought. An annual invitee to lecture at Beijing University, China, he has also lectured at the University of Havana, Cuba.