Here, in a compact yet comprehensive volume, are the essentials of Lenin"s writings, each of them introduced with a brief interpretive commentary.Patterned after Professor Tucker"s highly successful anthology The Marx-Engels Reader, this book includes those words necessary for an introduction to Lenin"s revolutionary thought. Selections, where possible, are presented in their fullest form, and "The State and Revolution" and "Left-Wing Communism" in their entirety.