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Short Handbook of Communist Ideology

Synopsis of the ‘Osnovy marksizma-leninizma’ with complete index

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  1. Helmut Fleischer
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Part of the book series: Sovietica (SOVA, volume 20)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. The Philosophic Principles of the Marxist-Leninist World-View

    1. Philosophic Materialism

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 1-2

    2. The Materialist Dialectic

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 2-5

    3. Epistemology

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 5-6

  3. The Materialist Conception of History

    1. The Essence of Historical Materialism

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 7-12

    2. Classes, Class-War and the State

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 12-15

    3. The Role of the Popular Masses and of the Individual in History

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 15-16

    4. Social Progress

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 16-17

  4. The Political economy of Campitalism

    1. Pre-Monopolistic Capitalism

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 18-21

    2. Imperialism as the Highest and Last Stage of Capitalism

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 22-25

    3. Imperialism Today

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 25-30

  5. Theory and Tactics of the International Communist Movement

    1. The World-Wide, Historical Mission of the Working Class

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 31-34

    2. The Marxist-Leninist Party and Its Role in the Class-War of the Worker

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 34-40

    3. The Policy of the Unity of Action of the Working Class with All Democratic Forces among the People

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 40-40

    4. The Coalition of the Working Class and the Peasantry under Capitalism

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 40-41

    5. The Movement of the Peoples for National Liberation from Colonialism

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 41-42

    6. The Fight of the Peoples of Capitalist Lands for the Conservation of Their Sovereignty

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 42-43

    7. The Fight for the Defence of Democracy in Bourgeois Lands

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 43-44

    8. The Danger of War and the Peoples’ Fight for Peace

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 44-46

    9. On The Different Forms of the Transition to Socialist Revolution

      • Helmut Fleischer
      Pages 46-52
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About this book

We have once again decided to publish in our series a source-text for the study of Communist ideology. This synopsis of Principles of Marxism­ Leninism 1 (published at the end of 1959 and widely distributed in the Soviet Union) appears as a sequel to that of the Principles of Marxist Philosphy which I published in 1959 as The Dogmatic Principles of Soviet Philosphy. This book is a corporate work, done by some forty Soviet philosophers, sociologists, economists, Party-theoreticians and propa­ gandists, under the direction ofO. V. Kuusinen (member of the Praesidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). Except for a few clarifications, we have restricted ourselves to pre­ senting the most important parts of the original text in an original translation which provides the material, in an authentic and handy 2 form, for our Institute's courses in Sovietology. In comparison to the other parts, the philosophical portions (Sections 1 and 2) have been held to a minimum since they repeat, for the most part, material which is already available in the synopsis of the Principles of Marxist Philosophy. I wish to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for their support which has made possible the research of our Institute as well as the preparation of the present work. J. M. BOCHENSKI 1 The original Russian title is: Osnovy marksizma-leninizma. Ueebnoe posobie (Text­ book), Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo politieeskoj literatury (State Publishing House for Political Literature), Moskva, 1959,774 pages, 300 000 copies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Short Handbook of Communist Ideology

  • Book Subtitle: Synopsis of the ‘Osnovy marksizma-leninizma’ with complete index

  • Authors: Helmut Fleischer

  • Series Title: Sovietica

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3584-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1965

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0053-7Due: 31 July 1965

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3586-6Published: 05 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3584-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0561-2551

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 111

  • Topics: Political Theory, Regional and Cultural Studies

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