These major writings on the ideology and practice of anarchism have a special value in showing the Marxist position against anarchism. Marx and Engels center their attack upon the followers of Bakunin, while Lenin's writings are devoted largely to syndicalist and "economist" trends in the labor movement, and to sectarian and "leftist" tendencies in the Communist movement during and after the Russian revolution of 1917. This collection was originally published in the Soviet Union in 1972.

The present collection consists of articles and speeches by V. I. Lenin shedding light on the events in Russia from the period of the bourgeois-democratic revolution in February 1917 to the Great October Socialist Revolution. The works included in this volume give a Marxist assessment of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, showing its specific features, characterizing the struggle of classes and parties, and exposing the imperialist nature of the First World War and the anti-popular essence of the Provisional Government. The material in the collection brings out the events of 1917 to show...