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Lenin sets out Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
📅 14 February 1905Lenin argued that workers and peasants could form a revolutionary alliance against autocracy, while insisting that the coming democratic revolution would not itself abolish capitalism. The text offers...
Lenin writes on the provisional revolutionary government
📅 1 June 1905During the 1905 Revolution Lenin debated what powers a revolutionary government should exercise and how socialists should relate to it. His argument was made amid strikes, mutinies, and popular...
Lenin debates whether socialists should boycott the Bulygin Duma
📅 1 August 1905The proposed consultative assembly prompted a tactical dispute over boycott, participation, and revolutionary mobilization. Lenin’s position shifted as the political crisis developed, showing strategy...
Lenin intervenes in debates over agrarian confiscation and land ownership
📅 1 August 1906Bolsheviks and Mensheviks disputed whether land should be municipalized, nationalized, or divided among peasants. Lenin’s writing engaged peasants’ immediate demands and competing socialist...
Lenin publishes Critical Remarks on the National Question
📅 16 December 1913Lenin opposed cultural autonomy as a substitute for political equality and argued for a right to secede. His intervention addressed national movements inside the empire, while its class-first...
Lenin asks What Next? as socialist parties fracture over the war
📅 9 January 1915Lenin examined the collapse of international socialist solidarity after leading parties backed their states in World War I. His response pressed for a new international, while other anti-war...
Lenin debates the slogan of a United States of Europe
📅 23 August 1915Lenin argued that a federated Europe under capitalism could not remove imperialist rivalry and might reinforce it. His analysis linked regional integration to colonial power and class relations, a...
Lenin writes on national self-determination
📅 1 January 1916In essays on the national question, Lenin defended the right of nations to secede while arguing for working-class internationalism. This framework challenged Great Russian chauvinism in principle;...
Lenin develops the argument for national self-determination under imperialism
📅 1 January 1916In his 1916 essays, Lenin argued that socialists in oppressor nations had a duty to defend the right of oppressed nations to secede. This principled distinction challenged empire but remained tied...
Lenin publishes The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
📅 11 November 1918Lenin attacked Karl Kautsky’s criticism of Bolshevik rule and defended the dictatorship of the proletariat. The polemic clarifies Lenin’s rejection of liberal parliamentary constraints, a position...