Lenin Collected Works/Volume 20

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Preface by Progress Publishers

Volume 20 contains the works of V. I. Lenin written between December 1913 and August 1914, with the exception of the article “Critical Remarks on the National Question”, which was written somewhat earlier and published serially in October to December 1913.

The bulk of the volume is devoted to the Bolsheviks' struggle against opportunism in the Russian and international labour movement: against the liquidators, the Trotskyists, the Vperyod group, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the opportunists of the Second International. Among these are the articles: “The Break-up of the 'August' Bloc”, “Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity”, “Narodism and Liquidationism as Disintegrating Elements in the Working-Class Movement”, “The Ideological Struggle in the Working-Class Movement”, “The Vperyodists and the Vperyod Group”, Report of the CC of the RSDLP to the Brussels Conference and Instructions to the CC Delegation, “A Fool's Haste Is No Speed”, “Comment on Kautsky's Letter”.

The Bolshevik programme on the national question is elaborated in the articles “Critical Remarks on the National Question” and “The Right of Nations to Self-Determination".

A conspicuous place in the volume is occupied by articles on the agrarian question, among them “The Peasantry and Hired Labour”, “Serf Economy in the Rural Areas” and “The Agrarian Question in Russia”.

Articles published for the first time in Lenin's Collected Works are “The Liquidators and the Decisions of the Lettish Marxists”, “Reply to the Article in Leipziger Volkszeitung”. In these articles Lenin denounces the liquidators' attempts to distort Party decisions and conceal objective data concerning monetary contributions to the Marxist and liquidationist newspapers. Other articles included for the first time in the Collected Works are: “Bill on the Equality of Nations and the Safeguarding of the Rights of National Minorities”, and “The Polish Social-Democratic Opposition at the Parting of the Ways”. These were published previously in Lenin Miscellany XXX.

The Instructions to the Central Committee Delegation to the Brussels Conference have been supplemented by a new letter of Lenin's.

In previous editions of the Collected Works the draft speech on “The Estimates of the Ministry of Agriculture” was published from the manuscript, four pages of which were missing. In the present edition the missing pages, which were found in 1941, have been restored.

 

1913

Critical Remarks on the National Question Liberals and Democrats on the Language Question “National Culture” The Nationalist Bogey of “Assimilation” “Cultural-National Autonomy” The Equality of Nations and the Rights of National Minorities Centralisation and Autonomy	17
Once More About the International Socialist Bureau and the Liquidators	52
National-Liberalism and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination	56
Narodism and Liquidationism as Disintegrating Elements in the Working-Class Movement	59
Comment on Kautsky's Letter	63
Novoye Vremya and Rech on the Right of Nations to Self-Determination	65
A Letter to the Editor	67

1914

Four Thousand Rubles a Year and a Six-Hour Day	68
Is a Compulsory Official Language Needed?	71
To Camille Huysmans	74
The Purpose of Zemstvo Statistics	82
Book Review: Labour Protection Exhibits at the All-Russia Hygiene Exhibition in St. Petersburg in 1913. St. Petersburg 1913. Pp. 78. Price not indicated.	89
The Liberals' Corruption of the Workers	90
Letter to the Editor	93
The Liquidators' Leader on the Liquidators' Terms of “Unity”	95
A Contribution to the History of the National Programme in Austria and in Russia	99
A Highborn Liberal Landlord on the “New Zemstvo Russia”	102
Narodism and the Class of Wage-Workers	105
More About “Nationalism”	109
The Peasantry and Hired Labour	111
Mr. Struve on the Need to “Reform the Government”	114
The Narodniks on N. K. Mikhailovsky	117
Concerning A. Bogdanov	121
Editorial Comment on Veteran's Article: “The National Question and the Lettish Proletariat”	125
Preface to the Symposium: Marxism and Liquidationism	126
Political Disputes Among the Liberals	129
The “Labouring” Peasantry and the Trade in Land	132
What Is Worrying the Liberals	136
Narodniks and Liquidators in the Trade Union Movement (A Valuable Admission)	138
Pious Wishes	142
A Liberal Professor on Equality	144
The British Liberals and Ireland	148
The Taylor System—Man's Enslavement by the Machine	152
A “Responsible Opposition” and the Participation of the Constitutional-Democrats in the March 1 Conference	155
The Break-Up of the “August” Bloc	158
Capitalism and the Press	162
A Radical Bourgeois on the Russian Workers	166
Political Lessons	170
The National Equality Bill A Bill for the Abolition of All Disabilities of the Jews and of All Restrictions on the Grounds of Origin or Nationality	172
Farm Labourers' Wages	174
The Lettish Workers and the Split in the Social-Democratic Group in the Duma	177
The “August” Fiction Exposed	182
Socialism Demolished Again	187
Forms of the Working-Class Movement (The Lockout and Marxist Tactics)	209
The Left Narodniks Whitewash the Bourgeoisie	213
On the Question of National Policy	217
Constitutional Crisis in Britain	226
Unity (April 12, 1914)	230
Organised Marxists on Intervention by the International Bureau	233
National Equality	237
The Liquidators and the Lettish Working-Class Movement	239
Serf Economy in the Rural Areas	242
From the History of the Workers' Press in Russia	245
What Should Not Be Copied from the German Labour Movement	254
Book Review: N. A. Rubakin, Among Books, Vol. II. Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1913. Price 4 rubles. Second Edition.	259
Liquidationism Defined	262
Concluding Remarks to the Symposium Marxism and Liquidationism	265
More About the Political Crisis	274
The Ideological Struggle in the Working-Class Movement	277
Bill on the Equality of Nations and the Safeguarding of the Rights of National Minorities	281
“Neighbouring Squires”	284
The Narodniks and “Factional Coercion”	286
Corrupting the Workers with Refined Nationalism	289
The Political Situation	292
Workers' Unity and Intellectualist “Trends”	294
The Left Narodniks	298
The Liquidators and Malinovsky's Biography	302
Two Paths	306
Plekhanov, Who Knows Not What He Wants	309
The Estimates of the Ministry of Agriculture	313
Unity (May 30, 1914)	319
A Fool's Haste Is No Speed	322
Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity “Factionalism” The Split The Break-up of the August Bloc A Conciliator's Advice to the “Seven” Trotsky's Liquidationist Views	325
Book Review: I. Drozdov, The Wages of Farm Labourers in Russia in Connection with the Agrarian Movement in 1905-06	348
Clarity Has Been Achieved Class-Conscious Workers, Please Note The Programme and the National Question The Decision of 1908 The 1910 Decision “Trends”	351
Adventurism	356
The Liquidators and the Decisions of the Lettish Marxists	360
The Working Class and Its Press	363
Left-Wing Narodism and Marxism	372
The Agrarian Question in Russia	375
The Political Significance of Vituperation (On the Question of Unity)	378
Objective Data on the Strength of the Various Trends in the Working-Class Movement	381
How Strong is the Left-Narodnik Trend Among the Workers	388
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination What Is Meant by the Self-Determination of Nations? The Historically Concrete Presentation of the Question The Concrete Features of the National Question in Russia, and Russia's Bourgeois-Democratic Reformation “Practicality” in the National Question The Liberal Bourgeoisie and the Socialist Opportunists in the National Question Norway's Secession from Sweden The Resolution of the London International Congress, 1896 The Utopian Karl Marx and the Practical Rosa Luxemburg The 1903 Programme and Its Liquidators Conclusion	393
The Bourgeois Intelligentsia's Methods of Struggle Against the Workers The Liquidators' and the Narodniks' Alliance Against the Workers How the Liberals Defend “Unity” Between the Workers and the Liquidators Why the Workers' Organisations Publicly Denounced the Liquidators as Slanderers?	455
The Vperyodists and the Vperyod Group	487
Editorial Comment on Ocksen Lola's “Appeal to the Ukrainian Workers”	494
Report of the CC of the RSDLP to the Brussels Conference and Instructions to the CC Delegation	495
How the Workers Responded to the Formation of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Group in the Duma What Is Shown by the Activities of the Two Groups During the First Quarter	536
Clarity First and Foremost! (On the Question of Unity) People Holding Two Opinions	544
The Results of Workers' Press Day Summed Up From the Report Published in “Put Pravdy” St. Petersburg	548
The Polish Social-Democratic Opposition at the Parting of the Ways	556
Reply to the Article in Leipziger Volkszeitung	558