V. I. Lenin

"LEFT-WING" CHILDISHNESS
AND THE PETTY-BOURGEOIS MENTALITY



Published May 9, 10, 11, 1918        
in Pravda Nos. 88, 89, 90       
Signed: N. Lenin        
 
 
 
 

Published according to the text of the
pamphlet:  N.  Lenin,   The Chief Task
of Our Duty,
 Pribol Publishers, Mos-
cow, 1918, collated with the Pravda
text  and  the text of  the  pamphlet:
N. Lenin (V. I. Ulyanov), Old Articles
on Almost New Subjects,
Moscow, 1922



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965

Vol. 27, pp. 323-54.

Translated from the Russian
by Clemens Dutt
Edited by Robert Daglish


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (June 1997)

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