Imperialism and the National Question

Lenin’s texts breaking with Eurocentrism in the socialist movement

List of contents

Introduction by Ruthie Wilson Gilmore

Critical Remarks on the National Question (1913)
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914)
The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1915)
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: A Popular Outline (1916)
The Discussion on Self-Determination Summed Up (1916)
Draft Theses on National and Colonial Questions for The Second Congress of The Communist International (1920)
Memo Combatting Dominant Nation Chauvinism (1922)
The Question of Nationalities or ‘Autonomisation’ (1922)

Notes

About the author

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (1870–1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917 and was one of the founders of the new revolutionary state.

Summary

Lenin's texts breaking with Eurocentrism in the socialist movement

Product details

• Authors: V I Lenin, V. I. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• Assisted by: Gilmore Ruth Wilson (Introduction)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781804292716
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-271-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Lenin Quintet, 1924-2024
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Nationalism, Russian Revolution, Colonialism & imperialism, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Colonialism and imperialism, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Marxism & Communism, 1917–1923 (Russian Revolutionary period)