V. I. Lenin

THE DISCUSSION OF
SELF-DETERMINATION
SUMMED UP



Written in July 1916        
Published in October 1916        
in Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata No. 1        
Signed: N. Lenin        

Published according to
the Sbornik text
 
 



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1964

Vol. 22, pp. 320-60.

Translated by Yuri Sdobnikov
Edited by George Hanna


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

THE DISCUSSION OF SELF-DETERMINATION SUMMED-UP

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Socialism and the Self-Determination of Nations .  .  .  .
Is Democracy "Practicable" Under Imperialism? . .  .  .  .
What is Annexation? .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
For or Against Annexations? . .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Why Are Social-Democrats Against Annexations? .  .  .  .
Is It Right to Contrast "Europe" with the Colonies in the
Present Question? .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Marxism or Proudhonism? .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
The Specific and the General in the Position of the Dutch
and Polish Social-Democrat Internationalists  .  .  .  .  .
Engels's Letter to Kautsky  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
The Irish Rebellion of 1916 .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Conclusion .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

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