PRE-ORDER Lenin Selected Writings vol. 3: on The National Question

This volume is a collection of Lenin’s writings on the National Question. 

Tsarist Russia was a “prison house of nations”. A majority of the population belonged to national groups oppressed by the tsarist regime, which suppressed their languages, their religions and their cultures.

The national question was therefore crucial from the point of view of the workers’ movement. It could only be solved with a revolutionary program.

This was a complex question that required firmness in principle and extraordinary flexibility in tactics in combining two different aspects: the unity of the working class in one party cutting across national barriers in the common struggle against autocracy and the defence of nations' right to self-determination, including their right to form an independent country if they so wished.

Lenin’s ideas and method shine as a remarkable example of this approach.

The book is divided into 3 parts:

• Part 1: Lenin, Luxemburg and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination
• Part 2: Lenin, the Bund and ‘Cultural-National’ Autonomy
• Part 3: During the Revolution and in Power