Lenin speaks to political education workers about propaganda and literacy

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...

Lenin argued that trade unions should defend workers’ interests and mediate between workers and the state, rather than simply become administrative organs. The debate exposed conflict over workers’...

Lenin continued his dispute with Trotsky and Bukharin over trade unions, warning against methods that treated workers as passive objects of administration. His proposed safeguards remained within a...

The draft addressed the crisis between the Soviet state and peasant households and informed the shift from requisitioning toward a tax in kind. It records a pragmatic adjustment after rural unrest,...

Sailors and residents demanded political freedoms, new soviet elections, and economic change amid famine and war exhaustion. The Bolshevik government treated the revolt as counterrevolutionary and...

The congress adopted a resolution prohibiting organized factions within the Communist Party. Leaders presented it as a temporary response to crisis; it also curtailed internal dissent and helped...