What Is to Be Done

What Is to Be Done? - pamphlet by Lenin, published in 1902; argues that workers will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles, and that a vanguard should be formed to spread Marxism among workers; precipitated the Bolshevik–Menshevik split. This book is the 2617^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article "What Is to Be Done?" in English Wikipedia has 38.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 7 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "What Is to Be Done?" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "What Is to Be Done?", its content was written by 125 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 544 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

What Is to Be Done? is on the 2617^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 311 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1210 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #34548 in September 2005
• Global: #10662 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #145107 in December 2024
• Global: #140705 in November 2017

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) What Is to Be Done?		38.5461
2	Slovenian (sl) Kaj storiti?		35.03
3	Turkish (tr) Ne Yapmalı?		29.6637
4	Catalan (ca) Què fer?		26.4234
5	German (de) Was tun? (Lenin)		24.7472
6	Russian (ru) Что делать? (Ленин)		22.178
7	Arabic (ar) ما العمل؟		20.9068
8	Persian (fa) چه باید کرد؟ (لنین)		19.4861
9	Indonesian (id) Apa yang Akan Dilakukan?		18.8443
10	Italian (it) Che fare? (Lenin)		14.9094

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "What Is to Be Done?" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) What Is to Be Done?		971 948
2	Russian (ru) Что делать? (Ленин)		227 432
3	Spanish (es) ¿Qué hacer?		188 627
4	French (fr) Que faire ? (Lénine)		167 307
5	Italian (it) Che fare? (Lenin)		135 885
6	German (de) Was tun? (Lenin)		103 518
7	Portuguese (pt) Que Fazer? (Lênin)		79 531
8	Polish (pl) Co robić?		42 088
9	Dutch (nl) Wat te doen?		28 000
10	Japanese (ja) なにをなすべきか?		26 675

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "What Is to Be Done?" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) What Is to Be Done?		6 926
2	Russian (ru) Что делать? (Ленин)		845
3	German (de) Was tun? (Lenin)		743
4	French (fr) Que faire ? (Lénine)		683
5	Italian (it) Che fare? (Lenin)		656
6	Japanese (ja) なにをなすべきか?		493
7	Spanish (es) ¿Qué hacer?		337
8	Portuguese (pt) Que Fazer? (Lênin)		312
9	Chinese (zh) 怎么办？		288
10	Turkish (tr) Ne Yapmalı?		222

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "What Is to Be Done?" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) What Is to Be Done?		125
2	German (de) Was tun? (Lenin)		75
3	Russian (ru) Что делать? (Ленин)		58
4	French (fr) Que faire ? (Lénine)		54
5	Italian (it) Che fare? (Lenin)		46
6	Dutch (nl) Wat te doen?		32
7	Spanish (es) ¿Qué hacer?		19
8	Swedish (sv) Vad bör göras?		17
9	Portuguese (pt) Que Fazer? (Lênin)		16
10	Persian (fa) چه باید کرد؟ (لنین)		15

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "What Is to Be Done?" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Co dělat?		1
2	English (en) What Is to Be Done?		1
3	Arabic (ar) ما العمل؟		0
4	Catalan (ca) Què fer?		0
5	German (de) Was tun? (Lenin)		0
6	Spanish (es) ¿Qué hacer?		0
7	Estonian (et) Mis teha?		0
8	Persian (fa) چه باید کرد؟ (لنین)		0
9	Finnish (fi) Mitä on tehtävä? (Lenin)		0
10	French (fr) Que faire ? (Lénine)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "What Is to Be Done?" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) What Is to Be Done?		311
2	French (fr) Que faire ? (Lénine)		235
3	Russian (ru) Что делать? (Ленин)		144
4	Turkish (tr) Ne Yapmalı?		90
5	Chinese (zh) 怎么办？		65
6	Italian (it) Che fare? (Lenin)		59
7	Persian (fa) چه باید کرد؟ (لنین)		51
8	German (de) Was tun? (Lenin)		46
9	Spanish (es) ¿Qué hacer?		42
10	Japanese (ja) なにをなすべきか?		35

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ما العمل؟
ca	Catalan Què fer?
cs	Czech Co dělat?
de	German Was tun? (Lenin)
en	English What Is to Be Done?
es	Spanish ¿Qué hacer?
et	Estonian Mis teha?
fa	Persian چه باید کرد؟ (لنین)
fi	Finnish Mitä on tehtävä? (Lenin)
fr	French Que faire ? (Lénine)
id	Indonesian Apa yang Akan Dilakukan?
it	Italian Che fare? (Lenin)
ja	Japanese なにをなすべきか?
kk	Kazakh Не істеу керек? (кітап)
nl	Dutch Wat te doen?
no	Norwegian Hva må gjøres?
pl	Polish Co robić?
pt	Portuguese Que Fazer? (Lênin)
ru	Russian Что делать? (Ленин)
sl	Slovenian Kaj storiti?
sv	Swedish Vad bör göras?
tr	Turkish Ne Yapmalı?
zh	Chinese 怎么办？

Best Rank

English: #145107 12.2024

Global: #140705 11.2017

Best Rank

English: #34548 09.2005

Global: #10662 09.2003

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