Lenin's theory of the national question was formed on the basis of generalizing the experience of the world development of national relations , including in Russia, where more than a hundred nationalities lived. From the work "Draft and Explanation of the Social - Democratic Party Program", written in prison in St. Petersburg at the end of 1895, to the last articles - "On the question of nationalities or 'autonomization', 'Better Less, but better' (March 1923), V. I. Lenin was continuously engaged in theoretical problems of the proletarian state. internationalism and national relations. In 1956, the collection "V. I. Lenin on the National and National-Colonial Question" prepared by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU was published, which included about 90 Lenin articles on this problem. Characteristically, two-thirds of them were written between 1913 and 1919. An analysis of V. I. Lenin's works on the national question published during these years shows that this question occupied a significant place in the Marxist theory of imperialism and the socialist revolution. In the works of V. I. Lenin's works written in the post-October period deal with the national question in three aspects: first, they indicate the means necessary to create a socialist community of peoples in a multiethnic Soviet state; second, great attention is paid to the ideas and principles of proletarian internationalism, the development of international revolutionary solidarity in the conditions of the existence of a country under the dictatorship of the proletariat; Third, the problems of the national liberation movement in the context of the general crisis of capitalism, the role and place of the liberation movement of oppressed peoples in the anti - imperialist struggle, and the transition of previously backward peoples to socialism, bypassing the capitalist stage of development, are considered. The theoretical and practical activities of the Communist and w ... Читать далее