This first full, separate, US publication of Lenin’s seminal work written over the winter of 1901-02 and first published as a serial in Iskra in March, 1902. It later was published in 1907 as a book without one section, and it is from that edition this translation comes from. In all there would be 40 volumes of the Little Lenin Library. It began in 1930 and was edited by Alexander Trachtenberg, published by the Communist Party’s International Publishers in conjunction with the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of Moscow. Many of the volumes went through different editions. Online text of later translation here.

What Is To Be Done? by V.I. Lenin. Little Lenin Library No. 4. International Publishers, New York. 1932.

Contents: Editor’s Foreword (1931), Authors Preface (1902), Dogmatism And “Freedom of Criticism”, The Spontaneity of the Masses and the Consciousness of the Social-Democrats, Trade-Unionist Politics And Social-Democratic Politics, The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries, The “Plan” For an All-Russia Political Newspaper, Conclusion, Appendix, Correction to What Is To Be Done? 176 pages.

PDF of original pamphlet: http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A4350/datastream/OBJ/download/What_is_to_be_done_.pdf