V. I. Lenin

THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
AND THE RIGHT OF NATIONS
TO SELF-DETERMINATION

(Theses )



Written January-February 1916        
Printed in April 1916 in        
the magazine Vorbote No. 2        
Printed in Russian in October 1916        
in Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata No. 1        

Published according to    
the Sbornik text    
 
 
 



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

Vol. 22, pp. 143-56.

Translated by Yuri Sdobnikov
Edited by George Hanna


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

THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION AND THE RIGHT OF NATIONS TO
SELF-DETERMINATION (Theses )

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Imperialism, Socialism and the Liberation of Oppressed
Nations  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
The Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Democracy .
The Significance of the Right to Self-Determination and
Its Relation to Federation .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
The Proletarian-Revolutionary Presentation of the Ques-
tion of the Self-Determination of Nations .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Marxism and Proudhonism on the National Question  .  .  .
Three Types of Countries with Respect to the Self-
Determination of Nations .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Social-Chauvinism and the Self-Determination of Nations
The Concrete Tasks of the Proletariat in the Immediate Future .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
The Attitude of Russian and Polish Social-Democrats and the Second International to Self-Determination .  .  .  .  .


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