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

Preface

1912-1916

NOTEBOOK “α”
  ("ALPHA")
237k
NOTEBOOK “β”
  (“BETA”)
557k
NOTEBOOK “γ”
  (“GAMMA”)
337k
NOTEBOOK “δ”
  (“DELTA”)
83k
NOTEBOOK “ε”
  (“EPSILON”)
86k
NOTEBOOK “ζ”
  (“ZETA”)
213k
NOTEBOOK “η”
  (“ETA”)
60k
NOTEBOOK “θ”
  (“THETA”)
178k
NOTEBOOK “ι”
  (“IOTA”)
167k
NOTEBOOK “κ”
  (“KAPPA”)
114k
NOTEBOOK “λ”
  (“LAMBDA”)
  • Contents
  • Sembat, Either Peace or a King
  • List of Quotations from Schulze-Gaevernitz's British Imperialism
  • Schulze-Gaevernitz, British Imperialism
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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
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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
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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
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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
  • 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
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NOTEBOOK “BRAILSFORD”
  • Contents
  • Brailsford, The War of Steel and Gold
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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
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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
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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"
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FROM THE NOTEBOOK “AUSTRIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS”, ETC.
  • Distribution of Colonies Among the Imperialist States
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NOTEBOOK “DATA ON PERSIA”
  • Contents
  • Demorgny, The Persian Question and the War
  • Jaeger, Persia and the Persian Question
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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
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Volume 39 Transcription/Mark-up:   R. Cymbala (NOTEBOOK “α” -to- NOTEBOOK “κ”), Nov. 29, 2004 – Feb. 11, 2005