Abstract

Along with his very first steps in political activity, Lenin began an analysis, grandoise in concept, of the entire system of societal relationships in Russia. The need for such an investigation was dictated by the fundamental practical tasks of revolutionary struggle. In order to know how the struggle for liberation of the working class and peasant masses would actually proceed in Russia, it was necessary to analyze all the underlying economic preconditions of the revolutionary process in Russia, to demonstrate the alignment of class forces, to reveal the reasons for the appearance and development of the new classes of capitalist society and the causes of their struggle with each other, and to trace the historical dynamics of this struggle