Lenin Selected Writings. 3 On the National Question

This collection features Lenin's remarkable writings on the national question, from the debates within the revolutionary movement, the revolutionary year 1917, the Soviets in power, and his last fight against the rising bureaucracy.
Tsarist Russia was a "prison house of nations". The national question was therefore crucial from the point of view of the workers' movement. It could only be solved with a revolutionary programme. This was a complex question which required firmness in principle and extraordinary flexibility in tactics in combining two different aspects: the unity of the working class in one party cutting across national barriers in the common struggle against autocracy, and the defence of right of nations of to self-determination.