Lenin drafts the preface to The State and Revolution while in exile in Finland. It seems as
though someone sent him the manuscript – he had left it behind in Switzerland the
previous March – via Stockholm. When he got it in July, he wrote Kamenev: “Entre nous. If they bump me off, I ask
you to publish my little note-book….” It was not published until after the
October Revolution.
Proscription and exile gave him a chance to
substantially complete the book. It was meant to help the proletariat understand
its coming role in the revolutionary state, leading to the withering away of
the state entirely.
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