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American editor's comment --Authorship -- Foreward to the Russian edition -- The modern era and problems of war and peace -- Leninist principles of sociological analysis of wars and contemporary problems -- Against falsification of the Leninist conception of the essence and nature of war -- Leninist critique of bourgeois militarism and the contemporary world -- V.I. Lenin on the Socialist army and the laws governing its development -- The military-philosophical ideas of Lenin and Soviet military science -- Social activity of the masses and the defense of socialism -- V.I. Lenin on the material prerequisites for the military power of the Socialist state -- V.I. Lenin on the cultural revolution and its significance in the strengthening of the armed forces -- Lenin's ideas on moral-political and psychological training of troops -- Science as a factor in strengthening the national defense capability -- The role and place of ideological struggle in modern warfare -- Lenin on scientific guidance of military organizational development -- Sociopolitical substance of civil defense -- Methodology of Leninist scientific foresight -- The Leninist style of scientific creativity -- Conclusion.