Lenin publishes Once Again on the Trade Unions

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 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’...

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...

The pamphlet explained the New Economic Policy as a retreat from forced requisition and a controlled use of market exchange. Lenin argued that the state would retain commanding economic sectors; the...