《国家与革命》是列宁对马克思主义国家学说的发展作出的重大贡献。列宁在书中阐述的关于无产阶级革命和无产阶级专政的基本原理，不仅教育了俄国布尔什维克党和广大劳动群众，为他们创建第一个社会主义国家提供了强大的思想武器，而且也对各国无产阶级政党支部结合本国个体实际解决本国的革命问题具有指志意义。十月革命后，列宁总结俄国无产阶级专政和社会主义建设的实践经验，作出新的理论概括，进一步发展了《国家与革命》一书中的思想。

Critical and historical study of European writers and theorists of socialism who set the stage for the Russian Revolution of 1917, by Edmund Wilson. It was published in book form in 1940 although much of the material had previously appeared in The New Republic. The work discusses European socialism, anarchism, and various theories of revolution from their origins to their implementation. It presents ideas and writings of political theorists representing all aspects of socialist, anarchist, and what would later be known as communist thought, among them Jules Michelet, Henri de Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, Mikhail Bakunin, Anatole France, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky, and Vladimir Ilich Lenin--who arrived at Petrograd's (St. Petersburg's) Finland Station in 1917 to lead the Bolshevik revolution.
To the Finald Station is one of the greatest works by 20th-century America’s heralded man of letters. This magisterial study of the revolutionary dream reaches from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to Russia in 1917, and features brilliant portraits of such figures as Jules Michelet, the great historian of the French people; the utopians Robert Owen and Charles Fourier; the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin; and of course Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky. Combining his polymathic talents as critic, journalist, historian, and novelist, Edmund Wilson offers an incisive and enduring tribute to the resilience, depth, and passion of the modern culture of protest.