The goal of leninism is to provide the works of Lenin in the original Russian in which they were written in an analysis-ready format.
If you would prefer to work with Lenin’s work in English, please see leninature. These databases are not fully comparable; some documents may be present in one and not in the other.
If you would like to use the tidy data in the format provided, simply install this package from github using devtools:
devtools::install_github("alicirce/leninism")Then, simply load the package and play around with the available data
frame, leninru
library(leninism)
library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
leninru %>%
head(10) %>%
mutate(text = substring(text, 1, 30)) # for nicer README printing
## # A tibble: 10 × 5
## vol doc_number section year text
## <dbl> <int> <chr> <dbl> <chr>
## 1 1 1 frontmatter 1893 ""
## 2 1 2 frontmatter 1893 "AnnotationВ первый том входят "
## 3 1 3 frontmatter 1893 "Ленин \nПолное собрание сочинен"
## 4 1 4 frontmatter 1893 "Предисловие к полному собранию"
## 5 1 5 frontmatter 1893 "Предисловие к первому тому В п"
## 6 1 6 sectionstart 1893 "1893 г."
## 7 1 7 main 1893 "Новые хозяйственные движения в"
## 8 1 8 main 1893 "По поводу так называемого вопр"
## 9 1 9 sectionstart 1894 "1894 г."
## 10 1 10 main 1894 "Что такое «друзья народа» и ка"If you would like to run the data compilation scripts yourself from scratch, you will need to download calibre, an open source and freely available epub editing tool.
The scripts in data-raw will download eBooks (FictionBook format) from
leninism.su, convert them to epub, read them into R, and
tidy the data into a more usable data frame.
If you’d like the tidied data available in this package, but would prefer to use another language to perform your analysis, assuming you have R installed and you’ve downloaded this package from github using the code above, you can run the following lines to export the data as a CSV file:
library(leninism)
write.csv(leninru, "lenin_ru.csv", row.names = FALSE)