Core Readings
G.W.F. Hegel, Science of Logic, trans. George di Giovanni (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
G.W.F. Hegel, Hegel’s Logic, Being Part One of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), trans. William Wallace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), available at https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slconten.htm
Vladimir Lenin, Conspectus of Hegel’s Book The Science of Logic (1914-1915), 85-238, in Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 38, Philosophical Notebooks (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972), also available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/index.htm
Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: A Popular Outline (1917) (Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1975), also available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
Vladimir Lenin, State and Revolution (1917), in Selected Works of V.I. Lenin, Volume II, Part I (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1952), also available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
Kevin B. Anderson, Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism: A Critical Study, 2nd edition (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2023).
Additional Readings
Tariq Ali, The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution (London: Verso, 2017)
Louis Althusser, Lénine & la philosophie, suivi de Marx & Lénine devant Hegel (Paris: Maspéro, 1975)
Louis Althusser, “Lenin before Hegel,” in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster (New York: Monthly Review Press 1971), available at https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1969/lenin-before-hegel.htm
Kevin B. Anderson, “Lenin’s Encounter with Hegel After Eighty Years: A Critical Assessment,” Science and Society 59, no. 3 (Fall 1995): 298, available at https://marxismocritico.com/2014/06/02/lenins-encounter-with-hegel/.
Kevin B. Anderson, “Revisiting Lenin’s Hegel Notebooks, 100 Years Later,” Socialism and Democracy, 28, no. 1 (2014), available at https://kevin-anderson.com/article/revisiting-lenins-hegel-notebooks-100-years-later/.
Georg Lukács, Lenin: A Study on the Unity of his Thought (1924), trans. Nicholas Jacobs (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1971), also available at https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1924/lenin/