Lenin circulates theses on national and colonial questions

Delegates founded the Communist International to coordinate revolutionary parties across borders. Many delegates came from colonized or semi-colonized regions and treated anti-imperialism as...

Lenin presented and defended a new programme that addressed state power, the peasantry, and nationalities. Delegates debated how to carry the revolution across a multi-national former empire; the...

Lenin urged organizers from Eastern regions to build movements against imperial domination and local elites. The speech recognizes anti-colonial struggles as part of world politics, but also frames...

Lenin linked the state’s economic policies to the political coalition between workers and peasants. His formulation acknowledged the agrarian majority as decisive, while treating the party-state as...

Lenin’s broadcast answered a message from Indian revolutionaries meeting in Kabul and linked Soviet Russia’s struggle to India’s liberation. The exchange offers a direct record of anti-colonial...

Written in April–May, the pamphlet urged communist parties to participate in unions and elections where workers remained active. It was also a sharp intervention against European and British left...

Lenin discussed party organization, colonial struggles, and alliances with national liberation movements. The congress formalized a global revolutionary program, but participation was unequal and...

Lenin presented the commission’s theses on national and colonial struggles, distinguishing oppressed and imperial nations and urging communist movements to work with revolutionary movements in...

Thousands of delegates and participants from across Asia gathered to debate anti-imperialism, land, religion, and revolution. The congress showed that anticolonial politics could not be reduced to...

Lenin argued that young communists needed education and practical work to help rebuild society. His address tied political education to state projects and raises questions about how youth...