SOURCE: "Rereading Lenin's State and Revolution," in Slavic Review, Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring, 1987, pp. 1-19.
In the following essay, Evans argues that Lenin's State and Revolution is not antithetical to the rest of Lenin's work, as most critics contend, but rather that the "tension between the polarities of value in Lenin's thought" would later become an integral part of Soviet politics.
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