Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite!: Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International 1920

by VI Lenin, Gregory Zinoviev, Karl Radek, M. N. Roy, Nikolai Bukharin

Overview

Offering a vivid portrait of social struggles in the era of the Bolshevik-led October Revolution, the reports, resolutions, and debates—among delegates from 37 countries—take up key questions of working-class strategy and program: the fight for national liberation, the revolutionary transformation of trade unions, the worker-farmer alliance, participation in bourgeois parliaments and elections, and the structure and tasks of Communist Parties.

This is the first book of the two volume set Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite! (2-Vol. Set)

This book is part of a series, The Communist International in Lenin’s Time.

“Reading through the thousand pages of proceedings of the second Comintern congress propels one back into an extraordinary moment of conviction and confidence, when for a brief instant people of the margins felt that their time had come.” —Slavic Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873489409
Publisher:	Pathfinder Press GA
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Series:	Communist International in Lenin's Time Series
Pages:	632
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

V.I. Lenin (1870–1924) was the central leader of the Bolshevik Party, which led workers and peasants to power in the world’s first socialist revolution in October 1917. He was chairman of the revolutionary workers and peasants government in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Lenin was the founding leader of the Communist International, which worked to advance the building of proletarian parties worldwide able to emulate what toilers in Russia had accomplished by conquering state power. In the final year of his active political life, Lenin led the fight within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union against the course of the growing petty bourgeois and newly emerging bourgeois layers in the Soviet Union that Joseph Stalin came to represent.

Lenin’s writings include:

Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings 1922–23 (2010)

Founding the Communist International: Proceedings and Documents of the First Congress, March 1919 (1987)

Lenin’s Struggle for a Revolutionary International: Documents, 1907–1916 (1986)

Pathfinder has also published Three Study Guides on Lenin’s Writings (2017).