Lenin Collected Works: Volume 39

Lenin Collected Works:
Volume 39

Notebooks on Imperialism

Written in 1915-16 in Russian, German, French, English and other languages.
First published in 1933--38 in Lenin Miscellanie XXII, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI. Notebook “δ” was first published in 1938 in the magazine Proletarskaya Revolutsia, No.~9
Published according to the manuscripts

1912-1916

NOTEBOOK “α” (“ALPHA") Contents Outline for an Article on the Struggle Against the “Marsh” (Notes on Kautskyism) Source References Ravesteijn on the Balkan Problem Werner on Concentration in the Ruhr Mining Industry Meyer (Capital Investment) and Source References Liefmann' on the Frankfurt Metal Trade Bourgeois Scientists on the Struggle Against Imperialism Moride, “Multiple Stores” Source References Schilder, Volume 5 of Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv Notes from Nashe Slovo Source References Total Capital in Joint-Stock Companies Kestner, Compulsory Organisation Vienna Arbeiter-Zeitung on Viennese Banks Annals of the American Academy Source References Stillich, Money and Banking Liefmann, Cartels and Trusts From Principles of Social Economics	237k
NOTEBOOK “β” (“BETA”) Contents Source References Extracts from Die Bank [1] Source References Security Statistics Grunzel, The Balance of Trade, Payments, and of the Economy Schilder, First Volume of Development Trends in the World Economy Hildebrand, The Shattering, etc. P. Tafel, The North American Trusts, etc. Note on K. Kautsky Versus Imperialism E. Agahd, Big Banks and the World Market Ballod, Statistics Otto, German Overseas Banks Diouritch, The Expansion of German Banks Abroad Kaufmann, French Banks Hegemann, French Banks Hulftegger, The Bank of England Jaffé, British Banks Mehrens, French Banks Wallich, Concentration of German Banks Zollinger (International Balance-Sheet) and Neymarck Taylor, Shop Management Seubert, The Taylor System in Practice Gilbreth, Motion Study Jeidels, Relation of the German Big Banks to Industry Stillich and World Economy. A Note Extracts from Die Bank [2] Remarks ((on Finance Capital in General)) Tschierschky, Cartel and Trust Heymann, Combined Enterprises On the Question of Imperialism	557k
NOTEBOOK “γ” (“GAMMA”) Contents Hoeniger, Economic Significance of the German Armed Services Théry, Economic Europe Notes on Books by Montesquiou and Estève and on an Article by Revere Lescure, Savings in France Hishida, The International Position of Japan as a Great Power References from English Sources and Conrad's Jahrbücher Patouillet, American Imperialism Source References on American Imperialism in Patouillet Moos, “French Credit Institutions and French and English Capital Investments Abroad” Kouznietsow, The Struggle of Civilisations and Languages in Central Asia Recent Literature Cited in Conrad's Jahrbücher Louis Bruneau, Germany in France Bibliographical References from Conrad's Jahrbücher Lysis, Against the Financial Oligarchy in France Notes on Books by Macrosty, Baumgarten and Meszleny, and Berglund Hubert, The German Effort Bérard, Britain and Imperialism Lair, German Imperialism Briefs, The Alcohol Cartel Goldschmidt, Concentration in the German Coal Industry Russier, The Partition of Oceania Vogelstein, Capitalist Forms of Organisation in Modern Big Industry Plan of the Book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Additions to the Plan of the Book Plans of Separate Chapters of the Book General Plan and Variations of Chapter Headings Tonnelat, German Expansion Outside Europe Driault, Political and Social Problems Colson, The Economic Organism and Social Disorder Redslob, Dependent Countries Notes for Articles “The `Disarmament' Slogan” and “The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution” On Zak's Book Germans and German Capital in Russian Industry Paul Louis, Outline of Imperialism Hill, History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe Morris, The History of Colonisation	337k
NOTEBOOK “δ” (“DELTA”) Contents Steffen, World War and Imperialism Oppenheimer, British Imperialism Henger, French Capital Investments Kautsky, 1914 and 1915 (on Imperialism, War, and Social-Democracy) Ischchanian, Foreign Elements in the Russian National Economy Pannekoek, “State Expenditure and Imperialism”	83k
NOTEBOOK “ε” (“EPSILON”) Contents Capital Invested Abroad Foreign Capital Investments: Arndt Source References The Economist on the War Arguments of the Social-Patriots The Daily Telegraph, November 17, 1914 Population and Area of the Belligerent and Non-Belligerent Countries The Economist and The Daily Telegraph on the War Bibliographical Notes and Source References Coal and Iron Trade Union Leaders	86k
NOTEBOOK “ζ” (“ZETA”) Contents Harms, World Economy Supan, Territorial Development of European Colonies and Hübner's Geographical-Statistical Tables Mutual Accusations “Engineering War” Junius, The Crisis of Social-Democracy “The Socialists and Peace” Items in Le Temps Brauer on German “Defeatists” Articles and Notes in Le Temps “American Arms Suppliers” The Daily Telegraph, April 22 and 23, 1915 Articles by Hugo Böttger in Der Tag “The Objects of the War”, Article in The Economist Journal de Genève, April 7, 1915 Lloyd George on £4,000,000,000	213k
NOTEBOOK “η” (“ETA”) Contents K.~Kautsky, The National State, etc Lensch, German Social-Democracy and the World War Article by O. B. “European Alliance of States?” Finance Capital in Russia Barron's Book on the War Lenz on Modem War	60k
NOTEBOOK “θ” (“THETA”) Contents Hilferding, Finance Capital The Electric Trust Statistics of Issues Riesser, German Big Banks and Their Concentration	178k
NOTEBOOK “ι” (“IOTA”) Contents Liefmann, Holding and Financing Companies Die Neue Zeit, 1911 (on War N.B.) and 1912 (Inter Alia, on a United States of Europe) Finanz-Archiv: 1915 Statistics of Issues. Eggenschwyler. Crohn (on Argentina) Walter Zollinger, Balance-Sheet of International Transfers of Securities Calmes, “Recent Literature on Capital Investment” Article by Paish in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, January 1911 Mülhaupt, The Milk Cartel Capitalist Associations on the War Crammond, Great Britain and Germany Sale, Japan Versus Great Britain Article: “Financial Arrangements and the War Debts of Europe”	167k
NOTEBOOK “κ” (“KAPPA”) J. A. Hobson, Imperialism	114k
NOTEBOOK “λ” (“LAMBDA”) Contents Sembat, Either Peace or a King List of Quotations from Schulze-Gaevernitz's British Imperialism Schulze-Gaevernitz, British Imperialism	0k
NOTEBOOK “μ” (“MU”) Contents Schwarz, Financial Systems of the Great Powers Vorwärts No. 103, April 13, 1916 Calwer, An Introduction to the World Economy Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute Bartholomew, Atlas of the World's Commerce Grain in World Trade Railways Die Bank Railway Statistics	0k
NOTEBOOK “ν” (“NU”) Contents La Revue politique internationale Plehn, World Politics Wegener, India Today Engels, “Can Europe Disarm?" Marx, Revelations about the Cologne Communist Trial, with an Introduction by Engels Engels, International Articles from the “Volksstaat” Preface, 1894 “The Bakuninists at Work” “A Polish Proclamation” “On Social Relations in Russia” Laufenberg, Organisation, War and Criticism Wirth, History of the Modern World Table of Colonial Seizures and Wars Young Egypt Congress Tardieu, France and the Alliances Mévil, From the Frankfurt Peace to the Algeciras Conference Political Handbook Germany and the World War Franke, “The Great Powers in Eastern Asia” Oncken, “Pre-History of the War” Adler, Imperialist Social Policy Siegfried, New Zealand Hoetzsch, Russian Turkestan Socialism in China Nahas, The Economic and Social Position of the Egyptian Fellah Die Neue Zeit, XXX, 1 Kautsky, “Mass Action” Link, “Are Savings Banks Charitable Institutions?" Population Estimates	0k
NOTEBOOK “ξ” (“XI”) Contents Press Excerpts Bernhardi, Germany and the Next War Ruedorffer, Basic Features of Contemporary World Politics Mackay, China, the Middle Republic. Its Problems and Prospects Lucas, Greater Rome and Greater Britain Belger, Social-Democracy After the War Rohrbach, Why This Is a German War Waltershausen, The National Econonic System of Capital Investments Abroad Hennig, World Communication Routes Helfferich, National Welfare in Germany Cromer, Ancient and Modern Imperialism	0k
NOTEBOOK “ο” (“OMICRON”) Contents Schmoller's Jahrbuch, 1915, No. 1 Marx, Article of 1878 on the International and Remarks on the Self-Determination of Nations The Basle Manifesto and the Chermitz Resolution Die Gleichheit, August 5, 1914 “War Against War” “Proletarian Women, Be Prepared!" “Political Survey” Delbrück, Government and the People's Will Volksstimme (Chemnitz) “Against Both Juniuses” “Quite Correct!" Bremer Bürger-Zeitung “The I.S.D. and the Internationale Group” Henke, “Not Identical, But the Same” “Yet Another Periodical in Bremen” Literature on the Militia Lensch on the Militia (1912) Engels on the Working Class in England Bürkli, “Democratisation of Our Army System” Kautsky 1910 and 1912 Kautsky, “The Copenhagen Congress” Kautsky, “Once More on Disarmament” Kautsky on Religion Socialists and Negroes in America Source References Belfort Bax on Imperialism (1900) Debs Italian and Polish Workers in Switzerland The Labour Movement in Canada Lissagaray, History of the 1871 Commune Monopoly and Technique Lensch, Social-Democracy, Its End and Its Successes Perrin de Boussac, On the Colonial Army and Labour Bibliography Chemnitz Volksstimme “Betrayal of the Party Is Betrayal of the Nation" Leipziger Volkszeitung Party Affairs Marx on France's War for Freedom (January 1871), on Ireland, and on the Coming War (1874) Ulbricht, Nationality and Imperialism “Epochs” of Modern History Der Kampf Magazine Adler and Renner Hilferding (Kautskyite Views) Engels and Marx on the English Workers Kautsky, “Patriotism, War, and Social-Democracy” Bauer, The National Question and Social-Democracy Grumbach, The Mistake of Zimmerwald-Kienthal Engels, Letters to Serge Die Glocke Magazine Ernst Heilmann, “The Heart of the Dispute” Liebknecht and Marx (Letter to Liebknecht, 1878) The Japanese and the Chauvinism of the American Workers Greulich and the Grütlianer Greulich, “Open Letter to the Hottinger Griltil-Verein” “Stones Instead of Bread" “Fundamental Divergence in Appraisal” “No Essential Differences Divide Us!” “The ‘Nationalist Chaff’ Is Separating from the ‘Internationalist Socialist Wheat’” “Notes for a Lecture” “Naturalisation of Foreigners” “Party or Grütli-Verein?” “Trade Unions and the Military Question” Schweizerische Metallarbeiter-Zeitung E. Th. “Survey” “Survey (Another Point of View)” Neue Rheinische Zeitung A Saying of Saint-Simon’s	0k
NOTEBOOK “BRAILSFORD” Contents Brailsford, The War of Steel and Gold	0k
NOTEBOOK “ON MARXISM AND IMPERIALISM” Contents Mehring, “New Contributions to the Biography of Marx and Engels” “Foreign Wage-Reducers and the Attitude of the International” Seeley, The Expansion of England P. Dehn, German Colonial and World Policy	0k
NOTEBOOK “IMPERIALISM” Contents Reventlow, German Foreign Policy, 1888-1918 Kautsky, Socialism and Colonial Policy Engels, Letter of September 12, 1882 Quadflieg, The Russian Policy of Expansion, 1774-1914	0k
NOTEBOOK “EGELHAAF” Egelhaaf, History of Recent Times Chief Crises in the International Policy of the Great Powers After 1870-71 Essayed Summary of World History Data After 1870 ((Egelhaaf and Other Sources)) Outline of Plan for “Essayed Summary of World History Data After 1870"	0k
FROM THE NOTEBOOK “AUSTRIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS”, ETC. Distribution of Colonies Among the Imperialist States	0k
NOTEBOOK “DATA ON PERSIA” Contents Demorgny, The Persian Question and the War Jaeger, Persia and the Persian Question	0k
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 1912-16 Plan of an Article on Syndicates Oil Output and Prices in America Bebel on a War of Germany Against Russia Die Nene Zeit, 1912-13 Notes on Defeat of One's Own Country in the Imperialist War Notes for Lecture on “Imperialism and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” On the National Question Outline of Lecture Theses Imperialism and the Right of Nations to Self- Determination (Outline) Introduction I. The Economic Standpoint II. The Historical Standpoint III. The Political Standpoint IV. The Standpoint of State Frontiers V. The Standpoint of the Proletariat's International Class Struggle VI. “Practical Feasibility” VII. The Military Standpoint VIII. The Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism IX. Comparison with Divorce X. The Case of Weill XI. Attitude of the Liberal Bourgeoisie XII. Experience of the R.S.D.L.P . XIII. The Example of Marx and Engels XIV. The Zimmerwald Left “Formula” E. Corradini, Italian Nationalism Nitti, Foreign Capital in Italy R. Liefmann, “Does the War Bring Socialism Nearer?" Conrad's Jahrbücher, 1915, No. 2, August Papers of the Society for Social Policy "Social-Imperialism and Left Radicalism” E. Rappard, Towards National Agreement A Good Summary of Comparative Figures A. B. Hart, The Monroe Doctrine Eug. Philippovich, “Monopolies” Journal de Genève, April 18, 1916 Potassium Consumption in Various Countries Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik Imperialism and the Split in Socialism Plan of Article Concerning the Definition of Imperialism Plan Variant Leuthuer, “Russian National Imperialism” Gazeta Robotnicza's Theses on Imperialism and National Oppression (Summary) Imperialism and the Attitude Towards It Plan of an Article on Kautskyism Fragment of an Article Literature Lists Lenin's Request Cards at the Zurich Cantonal Library	--k

Volume 39 Transcription/Mark-up:
• R. Cymbala (NOTEBOOK “α” -to- NOTEBOOK “κ”), Nov. 29, 2004 – Feb. 11, 2005 •
• Twig (NOTEBOOK “λ” -to- NOTEBOOK “BRAILSFORD”), Oct. 3, 2025 – Dec. 10, 2025 •

Lenin Collected Works: Volume 39

Notebooks on Imperialism

Written in 1915-16 in Russian, German, French, English and other languages. First published in 1933--38 in Lenin Miscellanie XXII, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI. Notebook “δ” was first published in 1938 in the magazine Proletarskaya Revolutsia, No.~9 Published according to the manuscripts

1912-1916

Lenin Collected Works:
Volume 39

Written in 1915-16 in Russian, German, French, English and other languages.
First published in 1933--38 in Lenin Miscellanie XXII, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI. Notebook “δ” was first published in 1938 in the magazine Proletarskaya Revolutsia, No.~9
Published according to the manuscripts