Among the most influential political & social forces of the twentieth century modern communism rests firmly on philosophical political & economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov later known as Lenin For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth century capitalism the Russian Revolution & the role of Communism in the tumultuous political & social movements that have shaped the modern world the works of Lenin offer unparalleled insight & understanding Taken together they represent a balanced cross-section of his revolutionary theories of history politics & economics; his tactics for securing & retaining power; & his vision of a new social & economic order This first volume contains four works (New Economic Developments in Peasant Life On the So-Called Market Question What the ' Friends of the People' Are & How They Fight the Social-Democrats The Economic Content of Narodism & the Criticism of It in Mr Struve's Book) written by Lenin in 1893-1894 at the outset of his revolutionary activity during the first years of the struggle to establish a workers' revolutionary party in Russia