Development of historical materialism by V. I. Lenin in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Kyiv, State Publishing House of Political Literature of the Ukrainian SSR, 1960, 160 p.

The authors describe the basic principles of the Marxist doctrine of history, its reception and development by Lenin, and the connection between historical materialism and the understanding of the nature of revolutionary processes, the formation of socialist consciousness among the working class, etc.

CONTENTS

Preface

Section I. Lenin on the class essence and ideological content of the narodism and ‘economism’

1. The economic content and political programme of the narodism
2. Social roots and ideological sources of ‘economism’

Section II. Lenin's defence and further development of the Marxist doctrine of the determining role of social being in relation to social consciousness

1. Lenin's development of the materialist understanding of history and the scientific method of sociological research
2. Lenin's critique of the subjective sociology of the narodism
3. Development and specification of the most important categories of historical materialism

Section III. Development of the Marxist theory of class struggle and revolution

1. Lenin on the class struggle as a political struggle, on the relationship between reform and revolution
2. Lenin's analysis of the historical conditions of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is an example of the creative development of Marxism. Lenin's doctrine of the hegemony of the proletariat in the bourgeois-democratic revolution

Section IV. Lenin on the role of the subjective factor in the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat

1. Patterns of formation of socialist consciousness and its role in the revolutionary struggle
2. The role of the ideologue in the labour movement the Party - the ideological leader and organiser of the revolutionary labour movement

Section V. The struggle against revisionism is the most important task of the Marxist-Leninist parties

1. Lenin's struggle against Russian and international opportunism and defence of revolutionary Marxism
2. Modern revisionism is the enemy of Marxism-Leninism