What Is To Be Done

Lenin’s work - What Is To Be Done, Burning questions of our movement? was written at the end of 1901 and early in 1902. It considers the conditions and problems in the formation of a vanguard, revolutionary party and was published in Iskra. Lenin said that the article represented “a skeleton plan to be developed in greater detail in a pamphlet now in preparation for print”. It emphases the centralization, the need for an all-Russian newspaper, without which a national party could not be built; and the creating an organization of professional revolutionaries (that is, people who devote themselves full time to party work); 200 pages.