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Letter to Stepan Shaumian, Prior to July 6, 1914
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, pages 410b-411.
Dear Suren,
I am surprised that you have not answered (or not noticed) the important point of the Bill. How to determine the proportionate share of expenditure on the education of different nations? (if this share is required to be not lower than the share of the given nation in the population).
You should consider this. Collect data. Go through the literature. Go into details. Give examples in figures from the life of the Caucasus.
Yet not a word from you about this!
To include autonomy in self-determination is wrong. It is a downright error. See my articles in Prosveshcheniye.[1] You are vacillating and âsearchingâ for something. Itâs wrong. You should understand the Programme and stand for it.
Write me a criticism of my articles in Prosveshcheniye, and weâll talk it over.
It is shameful to stand for an official language. It is a police-regime idea. But there is not a shadow of police-regime practice in advocating Russian for small nations. Donât you understand the difference between the truncheon and the advocacy of a free man? Amazing!
âI exaggerate the danger of Great-Russian nationalismâ!!! Now thatâs really funny! Do the 160 millions in Russia suffer from Armenian or Polish nationalism? Is it not a shame for a Russian Marxist to adopt the point of view of an Armenian hen-coop? Is it Great-Russian nationalism that oppresses and shapes the policy of Russiaâs ruling classes, or is it Armenian, Polish?? âArmenianâ blindness makes you a Handlanger of the Purishkeviches and their nationalism!
- â See âCritical Remarks on the National Questionâ and âThe Right of Nations to Self-Determinationâ (present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 17â51 and 393â454).âEd.