What Is To Be Done? Author_Plekhanov The attack on the theory

The attack on the theory came to epitomize the struggle against "Trotskyism"

two pistol shots shattered the peace of a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo

the new Socialist Soviet Republic represented a decisive threat to the world capitalist order

Using a wealth of documentary material from the time and also new interviews with key participants in the events

What Is To Be Done? Author_Plekhanov The attack on the theoryThe pamphlet outlined a broad plan of organization in which everyone would find a place for himself, become a cog in the revolutionary machine, a cog, which, no matter how small, was vital to the working of the machine. The pamphlet urged the necessity of intensive and tireless efforts to build the foundation that had to be built if the Party was to exist in deeds and not in words (Nadezhda Krupskaya, Reminiscences of Lenin.) First published in early