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Other historians paying attention to the question have differed, with Robert H. McNeal concluding that while Lenin "certainly helped form Stalin's ideas on the nationality question before the essay of 1913 was composed" and "probably edited it for republication in 1914," at root "the work remains essentially Stalin's."
The Nationalities Question by Rosa Luxemburg in 1909 [1] Theses on the National Question , writings by Vladimir Lenin in 1913, first published in 1925 [ 2 ] The Problem of Nationalities , Chapter 39 of Leon Trotsky 's History of the Russia Revolution Volume 3: The Triumph of the Soviets [ 3 ]
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination is a work by Vladimir Lenin written in February–May 1914. [1] It dealt with the national question in relation to countries such as Norway and Poland. A polemic against Rosa Luxemburg, it was written in the vein of "The Awakening in the East."
In these, Lenin articulated the position of the Bolsheviks, supporting the right of nations to self-determination. The most important of these was The National Question in Our Program, but the topic was also covered in On the Manifesto of the League of the Armenian Social-Democrats and The Position of the Bund in the Party. [5]
Bukharin and Georgy Pyatakov differed with Lenin on the national question. Bukharin and Pyatakov argued against the inclusion in the program of a clause on the right of nations to self-determination; claiming that the slogan that would hinder the victory of the proletarian revolution and the union of the proletarians of different nationalities.
Lenin was an internationalist and a keen supporter of world revolution, deeming national borders to be an outdated concept and nationalism a distraction from class struggle. [451] He believed that in a socialist society, the world's nations would inevitably merge and result in a single world government . [ 452 ]
In The Question of Nationalities, or 'Autonomisation' (1923), Lenin said: [N]othing holds up the development and strengthening of proletarian class solidarity so much as national injustice; "offended" nationals are not sensitive to anything, so much as to the feeling of equality, and the violation of this equality, if only through negligence or ...
Extrapolating from five philosophical bases of Marxism, namely that human history is the history of class struggle between a ruling class and an exploited class; that capitalism creates antagonistic social classes, i.e. the bourgeois exploiters and the exploited proletariat; that capitalism employs nationalist war to further private economic ...