Collection of publications, texts of speeches and interviews, letters and telegrams. The fifth edition[edit] - M. : Politizdat, 1969 - 434 s. : il. In the full collection of works in . and . Lenin includes his books, as well as articles and interviews published in various organs of the Russian and foreign press; reports and speeches by B. and . Lenin at party congresses, conferences, congresses of the Soviets, congresses of the Comintern, speeches at meetings of the leading centers of the party, at mass meetings and rallies; leaflets, statements, addresses, program documents, draft resolutions, decrees, greetings, the author of which was V. and . Lenin, letters, telegrams, notes, recordings of conversations over a direct wire, questionnaires and other materials. Thirty-third volume of the Collected Works of . and . Lenin's The State and Revolution . The Doctrine of Marxism on the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution, written in August-September 1917 and published in a separate book in 1918, as well as the preparatory materials for it, entitled B. and . Lenin's "Marxism on the State" . The epoch of imperialism confronted the proletariat and its Marxist parties with the task of overthrowing the rule of the bourgeoisie and winning political power by the working class. The main task that faced revolutionary Marxists at that time was the creative generalization of the new revolutionary experience of the proletariat’s struggle and on its basis the further development of the Marxist theory of socialist revolution, the doctrine of the state. It was necessary first of all to restore and systematically present the views of the founders of scientific communism on the state, which were revised by the leaders and ideologists of international opportunism, and to develop them in relation to the new historical situation. These tasks of paramount importance were carried out by Lenin in his book The State and Revolution, an outstanding work of creative Marxism. Lenin's work, in which the Marxist doctrine of the state is for the first time most fully and systematically presented, is an unsurpassed scientific coverage of the theory of the state, a vivid example of party in the struggle against the enemies of Marxism. In this work, Lenin showed how the views of Marx and Engels on the state developed, stressed that the question of the state is one of the fundamental issues of Marxism. Lenin analyzed the connection of the state with the class character of society substantiated the regularity and inevitability of the socialist revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat , revealed the essence and tasks of the proletarian state and proletarian democracy developed the Marxist doctrine of socialism and communism and covered other issues. In the work "The State and Revolution" the foundations of the theory of the socialist state are laid - the most important section of the Marxist doctrine of the state, further developed in the future. and . Lenin on the experience of Soviet power .