Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The Right of Nations to Self-Determination

Written: February-May 1914
Published: April-June 1914 in the journal Prosveshcheniye Nos. 4, 5 and 6. Signed: V. Ilyin. Published according to the text in the journal.
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Volume 20, pp. 393-454.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs and The Late Joe Fineberg
Transcription\Markup: B. Baggins, D. Walters, & K. Goins (2008)
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Contents

1. WHAT IS MEANT BY THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF NATIONS? 395
2. THE HISTORICALLY CONCRETE PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION 400
3. THE CONCRETE FEATURES OF THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN RUSSIA, AND RUSSIA’S BOURGEOIS-DEMOCRATIC REFORMATION 404
4. “PRACTICALITY” IN THE NATIONAL QUESTION 409
5. THE LIBERAL BOURGEOISIE AND THE SOCIALIST OPPORTUNISTS IN THE NATIONAL QUESTION 414
6. NORWAY’S SECESSION FROM SWEDEN 425
7. THE RESOLUTION OF THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS, 1896 430
8. THE UTOPIAN KARL MARX AND THE PRACTICAL ROSA LUXEMBURG 435
9. THE 1903 PROGRAMME AND ITS LIQUIDATORS 442
10. CONCLUSION 451

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