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A monumental work that describes the role of State in society and one of the pillars of Marxism and Communism, State and Revolution is Vladimir Lenin's greatest legacy. Summary of the Book In what political theorists consider his greatest contribution to the science, Lenin explains that the State is a special organization of force. Strongly anti-democratic, Lenin's book explains that a democracy is an example of a situation where once every few years a member of the upper class of society rules the parliament and crushes the people underfoot in an example of the failure of democracy. He defends Marxism and Communism, showing readers that the organization of violence for the suppression of some class is the primary function of the State. Thus he describes the state as a tool for class suppression and portrays it as a tool used to control other social classes when the situation cannot be otherwise resolved. This function of the State is portrayed differently in different scenarios, becoming a means of controlling the ruling class in a dictatorship, and a means for the ruling class to control the proletariat in a democracy. The principles he outlined became the pillars of Leninism and form a vital part of Communism and its present form. About Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, political theorist and leader. He is best remembered as the Premier of the Soviet Union. In Kazan University, where he studied law, Lenin discovered Karl Marx's Das Capital and began to explore the themes of Marxism. His thoughts on the subject and his theories on Marxian economic theory have collectively come to be known as Marxism–Leninism.