VI Lenin – Collected Works

Posted on 16/12/2019 by Michael

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VI Lenin – Collected Works – Volumes 1 – 47

On this page you will find the Collected Works of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The intention is, eventually, to provide full contents for each volume posted. As it stands at the moment they are only available for the first fifteen volumes – contents for later volumes will appear gradually over a period of time.

However all of the 45 volumes of Lenin’s Collected Works will be available in pdf format to download from the start. There are two further volumes, an Index of Works and Names and another a Subject Index – also downloadable.

These volumes were made available by the comrades at From Marx to Mao, to whom we give our thanks. They have other material on their website – some of which is available here but others (especially individual pamphlets of the great Marxist-Leninists) in html format are not.

Also here you can find the writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, JV Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Enver Hoxha, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un.

Volume 1 – 1893-1894, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 543 pages.

Index for Volume 1

Volume 2 – 1895-1897, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972, 572 pages.

Index for Volume 2

Volume 3 – The Development of Capitalism in Russia, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 658 pages.

Index for Volume 3

Volume 4 – 1898-April 1901, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 466 pages.

Index for Volume 4

Volume 5 – May 1901-February 1902, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 574 pages.

Index for Volume 5

Volume 6 – January 1902-August 1903, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 574 pages.

Index for Volume 6

Volume 7 – September 1903-December 1904, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 582 pages.

Index for Volume 7

Volume 8 – January-July 1905, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 609 pages.

Index for Volume 8

Volume 9 – June-November 1905, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 5004 pages.

Index for Volume 9

Volume 10 – November 1905-June 1906, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1978, 569 pages.

Index for Volume 10

Volume 11 – June 1906 – January 1907, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972, 519 pages.

Index for Volume 11

Volume 12 – January – June 1907, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 565 pages.

Index for Volume 12

Volume 13 – June 1907 – April 1908, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1978, 541 pages.

Index for Volume 13

Volume 14 – 1908 – Materialism and Empirio-criticism – Critical comments on a Reactionary Philosophy, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 405 pages.

Index for Volume 14

Volume 15 – March 1908 – August 1909, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 521 pages.

Index for Volume 15

Volume 16 – September 1909 – December 1910, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 485 pages

Index for Volume 16

Volume 17 – December 1910 – April 1912, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 631 pages

Index for Volume 17

Volume 18 – April 1912 – March 1913, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1978, 653 pages

Index for Volume 18

Volume 19 – March – December 1913, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 602 pages

Index for Volume 19

Volume 20 – December 1913 – August 1914, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 625 pages

Index for Volume 20

Volume 21 – August 1914 – December 1915, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 493 pages

Index for Volume 21

Volume 22 – December 1915 – July 1916, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 388 pages

Index for Volume 22

Volume 23 – August 1916 – March 1917, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 427 pages

Index for Volume 23

Volume 24 – April – June 1917, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 620 pages

Index for Volume 24

Volume 25 – June – September 1917, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 550 pages

Index for Volume 25

Volume 26 – September 1917 – February 1918, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 597 pages

Index for Volume 26

Volume 27 – February – July 1918, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 637 pages

Index for Volume 27

Volume 28 – July 1918 – March 1919, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 549 pages

Index for Volume 28

Volume 29 – March – August 1919, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 599 pages

Index for Volume 29

Volume 30 – September 1919 – April 1920, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 590 pages

Index for Volume 30

Volume 31 – April – December 1920, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 603 pages

Index for Volume 31

Volume 32 – December 1920 – August 1921, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973, 581 pages

Index for Volume 32

Volume 33 – August 1921 – March 1923, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973, 558 pages

Index for Volume 33

Volume 34 – Letters – November 1895 – November 1911, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 520 pages

Index for Volume 34

Volume 35 – Letters – February 1912 – December 1922, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973, 624 pages

Index for Volume 35

Volume 36 – 1900 – 1923, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 725 pages

Index for Volume 36

Volume 37 – Letters to relatives – 1893 – 1922, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1975, 742 pages

Index for Volume 37

Volume 38 – Philosophical Notebooks, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1976, 637 pages

Index for Volume 38

Volume 39 – Notebooks on Imperialism, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 841 pages

Index for Volume 39

Volume 40 – Notebooks on the Agrarian Question – 1900 – 1916, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974, 542 pages

Index for Volume 40

Volume 41 – 1896 – October 1917, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 607 pages

Index for Volume 41

Volume 42 – October 1917 – March 1923, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 627 pages

Index for Volume 42

Volume 43 – December 1893 – October 1917, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 781 pages

Index for Volume 43

Volume 44 – October 1917 – November 1920, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977, 615 pages

Index for Volume 44

Volume 45 – November 1920 – March 1923, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1976, 810 pages

Index for Volume 45

Also, as part of this project, there were two all volume indexes produced.

Volume 46 – Reference Index to VI Lenin Collected Works, Index of Works, Name Index, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1978, 334 pages.

Volume 47 – Reference Index to VI Lenin Collected Works, Subject Index, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1980, 664 pages.

Chinese Revolutionary Art – 1975

Posted on 27/11/2019 by Michael

Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Chinese Revolutionary Art – 1975

So far the emphasis on this blog has been on those examples of Socialist Realist art that I have encountered on various visits to Albania in the past few years – especially the ‘lapidars’ (public monuments and sculptures). One of the drivers for starting this project was the fear that due to both active political vandalism and simple lack of care many of these unique works of socialist art were likely to disappear in the near future and would be lost to posterity.

The Albanian Lapidar Survey of 2014 meant that, at least, those monuments that still existed and were identified at the time would be recorded in as much detail as possible, including a comprehensive photographic record of their condition in 2014. The fate of those lapidars has varied in the intervening years, some suffering further decay others suffering inappropriate (if at times well meaning) and destructive ‘renovation’.

With many of the lapidars I have visited I have attempted to carry out a deep reading of what they represent and have tried to put them in their historical context. I don’t even try to maintain that I have always got it right but in lieu of any other such record (much information about the more than 650 lapidars covered in the ALS investigation – and many other works of art, such as bas reliefs, mosaics, etc. – having been destroyed or lost in the chaotic years of the 1990s) I hope my efforts can help in reconstructing a comprehensive data base for the future. Although many have already been written about on this blog there are still many to follow.

Travelling quite extensively around the country I have encountered artistic elements of the socialist past that were outside the remit of the ALS. That includes the likes of the mosaics (Bestrove, Tirana Historical Museum and on the Bashkia in Ura Vajgurore – to name a few) and bas reliefs (for example, the Durres Tobacco Factory and Radio Kukesi) already mention as well as paintings (in the National Art Gallery in Tirana), statues (including the ‘Sculpture Park‘ behind the National Art Gallery and the 68 Girls of Fier), stand alone structures (such as the Party Emblem in Peshkopia) and murals (such as the Traditional Wedding Mural in the hotel restaurant also in Peshkopia), exhibits in museums and a number of other works that have (sometimes) miraculously survived the 30 years following the success of the counter-revolution.

By the time the Party of Labour of Albania had achieved victory over the fascist invaders in November 1944 the idea of Socialist Realist Art as something Socialist countries should encourage had become entrenched in the thinking of revolutionary Marxist-Leninists. I presented my interpretation of this when discussing art in Albania but the same arguments would suit the use of art in the other major Socialist countries, especially the Soviet Union and China.

I intend to look at Soviet Socialist Realist Art, initially, by reading the stories being told in the Metro stations, principally of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and Moscow.

When it comes to the People’s Republic of China there are already examples of the use of art in the struggle to establish Socialism in the pages of Chinese Literature. Various issues of that magazine are available from 1953 to 1981 (the final 5 years an example of how literature and art can be used to turn back Socialism in a similar way it was used to promote Socialism from 1949 till just after the death of Chairman Mao in 1976).

The Chinese approach to literature and art can also be gleaned from the works of the writer and cultural theorist Lu Hsun.

Here I present a slide show of a collection of posters from the last, full revolutionary year of the People’s Republic of China (1975) to give an idea of how Chinese poster art had developed to that date.

Albania Today 1990

Posted on 26/04/2018 by Michael

The Albanians Mosaic – National History Museum, Tirana

Albania Today 1990

Albania Today was a political and informative review produced bi-monthly from the first issue that appeared in November/December at the end of 1971 until everything hit the fan in 1990.

For 20 years it was one way to keep up with the political developments within the country, including its relationship with The People’s Republic of China.

Although there is an emphasis on political statements and speeches there are also insights into the changes, developments and ideas existing within Albanian society during the 1970s and 1980s.

Albania Today: Index 1971 – 1979, Index 1980 – 1984, Index 1985 – 1990

Albania Today: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 (missing), 1980 (missing), 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 (missing), 1988, 1989.

1990 was the last year that the magazine was published. Matters were chaotic during the year and distribution wasn’t guaranteed. Some of the articles also demonstrate the manner in which the Party sought to deal with the increasingly unstable situation that was developing throughout Eastern Europe. All those efforts came to nothing. To the best of my knowledge issue No 5 (114) was the last ever published.

Albania Today No 3 (112) 1990

Contents include:

To enhance the role of the Democratic Front in the process of the further democratisation of the life of the country – Nexhmije Hoxha

Our time and our literature – Ismail Kadare

Albania Today No 4 (113) 1990

Contents include:

Albania has considered children the most privileged part of the population for whom society and the family do a great deal – Ramiz Alia

On the new economic mechanism

Major victory in the field of the people’s education

Albania Today No 5 (114) 1990

Contents include:

The strengthening of the people’s state power and the improvement of the political system reinforce democratic developments

Fertile fields in the place of former marshlands

The education reform in Albania is connected with the new requirements of the time

Left side of the road

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VI Lenin – Collected Works

VI Lenin – Collected Works – Volumes 1 – 47

Chinese Revolutionary Art – 1975

Chinese Revolutionary Art – 1975

Albania Today 1990

Albania Today 1990