Lenin Party Work in the Masses

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Octavo in tan cloth, gilt titles; dust jacket; 107 pp: portrait; 20 cm Very Good(+) in Good(+) dust jacket; boards show light foxing as well as light fading to edges and corners, else boards are smooth and clean; pages clean, binding tight; Dust jacket is faintly toned closed tear to front of jacket, small sticker located to back corner of jacket, dust jacket is protected in archival mylar. Hardcover.

"Lenin believed that the party should act as the vanguard of the proletariat, guiding and educating the masses. He argued that the working class, while capable of spontaneous action, needed the party's leadership to develop a conscious revolutionary movement. This book explores his essays and beliefs." --Publisher