Lenin writes on economics and politics during proletarian dictatorship

Lenin 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...

Lenin defended the new Soviet state as an alternative to parliamentary government and urged support for its authority during civil war. His argument illuminates Bolshevik theory of class power,...

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’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...

Lenin’s draft urged communists to distinguish oppressor and oppressed nations and to ally with anti-colonial movements while maintaining class analysis. The theses supported colonial liberation but...

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...