Lenin intervenes in the trade-union debate with Trotsky

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 emphasized literacy, political education, and the challenge of reaching a largely rural population. The address treats education as essential to mass participation but also as a tool for...

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...

The Tenth Party Congress approved a shift from forced grain requisition toward a tax in kind, allowing peasants to sell surplus. NEP was a tactical retreat from War Communism amid economic collapse...