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The Great Revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin:
His writings and also commentaries
and other documents about Lenin

“Lenin On the Tribune”
Painting by Alexander Gerasimov, 1930

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Lenin’s Collected Works:

• Notice! To provide access to Lenin’s Collected Works we formerly just linked to the Lenin section on Marx2Mao.com, but for a period in the Fall of 2020 that site was no longer accessible. This increased our concern about the threats of suppression of Marxist thought on the Internet. So we decided to also post these and other works from Marx2Mao on BannedThought.net and expressed the hope that other web sites would do the same. (We hope other people will also copy BannedThought.net materials to their sites, too.) In case Marx2Mao.com should disappear again, there is also a mirror for Marx2Mao at: http://marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com/
  The entire 45-volume English translation of the 4th Russian edition of Lenin Collected Works, in searchable PDF image format copied from the Marx2Mao.com web site, is now available here:
  • Volume 1: 1893-1894, 562 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,523 KB]
  • Volume 2: 1895-1897, 586 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,462 KB]
  • Volume 3: “Development of Capitalism in Russia” (1896-1899), 686 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,396 KB]
  • Volume 4: 1898-April 1901, 490 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [7,952 KB]
  • Volume 5: May 1901-February 1902, 588 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,180 KB]
  • Volume 6: January 1902-August 1903, 592 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,278 KB]
  • Volume 7: September 1903-December 1904, 594 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,614 KB]
  • Volume 8: January-July 1905, 620 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,959 KB]
  • Volume 9: June-November 1905, 516 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,135 KB]
  • Volume 10: November 1905-June 1906, 582 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,318 KB]
  • Volume 11: June 1906-January 1907, 534 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,432 KB]
  • Volume 12: January-June 1907, 576 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,941 KB]
  • Volume 13: June 1907-April 1908, 558 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,583 KB]
  • Volume 14: “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism” (1908), 418 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,061 KB]
  • Volume 15: March 1908-August 1909, 534 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,951 KB]
  • Volume 16: September 1909-December 1910, 500 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,980 KB]
  • Volume 17: December 1910-April 1912, 640 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,263 KB]
  • Volume 18: April 1912-March 1913, 664 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,870 KB]
  • Volume 19: March-December 1913, 614 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,104 KB]
  • Volume 20: December 1913-August 1914, 640 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,303 KB]
  • Volume 21: August 1914-December 1915, 506 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,982 KB]
  • Volume 22: December 1915-July 1916, 400 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,366 KB]
  • Volume 23: August 1916-March 1917, 440 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,695 KB]
  • Volume 24: April-June 1917, 636 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,995 KB]
  • Volume 25: June-September 1917, 562 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,963 KB]
  • Volume 26: September 1917-February 1918, 608 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,443 KB]
  • Volume 27: February-July 1918, 652 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,995 KB]
  • Volume 28: July 1918-March 1919, 566 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,004 KB]
  • Volume 29: March-August 1919, 612 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,844 KB]
  • Volume 30: September 1919-April 1920, 604 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,724 KB]
  • Volume 31: April-December 1920, 618 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,406 KB]
  • Volume 32: December 1920-August 1921, 594 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,021 KB]
  • Volume 33: August 1921-March 1923, 572 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,572 KB]
  • Volume 34: Letters: November 1895-November 1911, 528 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,511 KB]
  • Volume 35: Letters: February 1912-December 1922, 642 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [6,024 KB]
  • Volume 36: Letters: 1900-1923, 736 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,618 KB]
  • Volume 37: Letters to Relatives: 1893-1922, 772 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [8,399 KB]
  • Volume 38: Philosophical Notebooks: 1895-1916, 660 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,814 KB]
  • Volume 39: Notebooks on Imperialism, 864 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,732 KB]
  • Volume 40: Notebooks on the Agrarian Question: 1900-1916, 562 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,367 KB]
  • Volume 41: 1896-October 1917, 616 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,735 KB]
  • Volume 42: October 1922-March 1923, 636 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,734 KB]
  • Volume 43: December 1893-October 1917, 792 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,478 KB]
  • Volume 44: October 1917-December 1920, 624 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,897 KB]
  • Volume 45: December 1920-March 1923, 820 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,548 KB]
• Reference Index to V. I. Lenin Collected Works: Part One: Index of Works and Name Index, (London: Lawrence & Wishart / Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978), 346 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [15,889 KB]
• Reference Index to V. I. Lenin Collected Works: Part Two: Subject Index, (London: Lawrence & Wishart / Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980), 674 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [30,218 KB]

Other Collections of Lenin’s Writings:

• [Books:] Collected Works of V. I. Lenin [1920s-1930s International Publishers Edition; only 10 books published (of which we so far have 8).]
  • Volume 4, Book 1:, “The Iskra Period (1900-1902)”, (NY: 1929), 337 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [13,758 KB]
  • Volume 4, Book 2:, “The Iskra Period (1900-1902)”, (NY: 1929), 317 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [13,095 KB]
  • Volume 13:, “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism”, (NY: 1927), 347 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [18,579 KB]
  • Volume 18:, “The Imperialist War”, (NY: 1930), 499 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [23,753 KB]
  • Volume 20, Book 1:, “The Revolution of 1917, from the March Revolution to the July Days”, (NY: 1929), 381 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [13,362 KB]
  • Volume 20, Book 2:, “The Revolution of 1917, from the March Revolution to the July Days”, (NY: 1929), 428 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [15,605 KB]
  • Volume 21, Book 1:, “Toward the Seizure of Power”, (NY: 1932), 305 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [15,411 KB]
  • Volume 21, Book 2:, “Toward the Seizure of Power”, (NY: 1932), 353 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [18,002 KB]
• [Books:] V. I. Lenin: Selected Works in Three Volumes, (Moscow: 1975 [Revised edition]). Also better scans than before, and on white paper.
  • Volume 1:, (Moscow: 1975), 839 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [40,631 KB]
  • Volume 2:, (Moscow: 1975), 816 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [38,633 KB]
  • Volume 3:, (Moscow: 1975), 811 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [38,281 KB]
• [Book:] V. I. Lenin: Selected Works [In One Volume], (Moscow: Progress, 1977), 782 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [39,367 KB]
• [Books:] V. I. Lenin: Selected Works, in 12 volumes, (NY: International, late 1930s), arranged by period and by topic. [Although the later 45-volume Collected Works (see above) is more complete and more carefully prepared, this earlier set provides alternate translations which may be helpful in some cases. Plus, this set may facilitate identifying references to Lenin’s specific writings which point to these volumes.]
  • Volume 1: The Prerequisites of the Russian Revolution (1891-1899), (NY: International, n.d. (1930s)), 564 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [27,875 KB]
  • Volume 2: The Struggle for the Bolshevik Party (1900-1904), (NY: International, n.d. (1930s)), 587 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [28,341 KB]
  • Volume 3: The Revolution of 1905-1907, (NY: International, n.d. (1930s)), 649 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [30,998 KB]
  • Volume 4: The Years of Reaction and of the New Revival (1908-1914), (NY: International, n.d. (1930s)), 465 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [21,663 KB]
  • Volume 5: Imperialism and Imperialist War (1914-1917), (NY: International, n.d. (1930s)), 409 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [18,867 KB]
  • Volume 6: From the Bourgeois Revolution to the Proletarian Revolution (1917), (NY: International, n.d. (1930s)), 679 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [31,239 KB]
  • Volume 7: After the Seizure of Power (1917-18), (NY: International, n.d. (1930s)), 535 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [25,629 KB];
    Different scan, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1936), 536 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [23,350 KB]
  • Volume 8: The Period of War Communism (1918-1920), (NY: International, n.d. (1930s)), 473 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [22,586 KB]
  • Volume 9: New Economic Policy; Socialist Construction, (NY: International, 1937), 521 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [22,586 KB]
  • Volume 10: The Communist International, (NY: International, 1938), 345 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [15,564 KB]
  • Volume 11: The Theoretical Principles of Marxism, (NY: International, n.d. (1930s)), 779 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [38,645 KB]
  • Volume 12: Theory of the Agrarian Question, (NY: International, 1938), 351 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [16,934 KB];
    Different scan, (NY: International, 1938), 349 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [9,799 KB]
• A Dictionary of Terms and Quotations from the Works of Lenin, compiled by Thomas Bell, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1942), 52 pages. (This dictionary has excerpts from the above-mentioned 12-volume edition of Lenin’s Selected Works.)   Searchable PDF format   [1,416 KB]
• “V. I. Lenin — On Marx and Engels”, (Peking: FLP, 1975), 108 pages. Seven articles written from 1895-1919.   Searchable PDF format   [3,450 KB]
• [Book:] “Lenin — Marx, Engels, Marxism”, (Moscow: Progress, 8th rev. ed. 1968 [1975 printing]), 515 pages. (Most pages well-scanned; a small number too light but mostly legible.)   Searchable PDF format   [14,478 KB]
• [Book:] “Lenin — Introduction to Marx, Engels, Marxism”, (Moscow: Progress, 1987), 109 pages. Much smaller book than item above. (Poor scan, some crooked pages, but fully legible.)   Searchable PDF format   [2,835 KB]
• “Lenin — Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism”, (Moscow: Progress, 1972), 80 pages. Five articles on Marx and Engels and the historical development of Marxism.   Searchable PDF format   [3,226 KB]
• “Lenin — May Day”, (Moscow: Progress, 1968), 36 pages. Four articles on May Day and activities on that revolutionary holiday.   Searchable PDF format   [1,167 KB]
• “Lenin — Where to Begin?”, and seven other articles on the Party Press (written 1901-1918), (Moscow: Progress, 1971), 70 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,030 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On Proletarian Revolution and Proletarian Dictatorship, (Peking: FLP, 1960), 106 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,356 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On the Dictatorship of the the Proletariat, (Moscow: Progress, 1976), 370 pages, mediocre scan.   Searchable PDF format   [16,494 KB]
• “Lenin — On the National Liberation Movement”, (Peking: FLP, 1960), 74 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,715 KB]
• “Lenin — On the National and Colonial Questions: Three Articles”, from 1916 and 1920, (Peking: FLP, 1967), 54 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,390 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On the Jewish Question, ed. by Hyman Lumer, (NY: International, 1974), 162 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,586 KB]
• “Lenin’s Prediction on the Revolutionary Storms in the East”, (Peking: FLP, 1967), 34 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [623 KB]
• “Lenin — On War and Peace”, (Peking: FLP, 1960), 84 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [6,065 KB]
• “Lenin — Against Imperialist War”, (Moscow: Progress, 3rd printing 1978), 399 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [14,497 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On the Struggle Against Revisionism, (Peking: FLP, 1960), 116 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,738 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — Against Revisionism, (Moscow: Progress, 9th printing, 1976), 605 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [25,636 KB]
• “Lenin — Revolutionary Adventurism”, (Moscow: Progress, 1969), 44 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,558 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — Letters On Tactics, (Moscow: Progress, 1970), 104 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [6,782 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — About the Press, a collection of articles and excerpts, (Prague: International Organisation of Journalists, 1972), 483 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [21,607 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On Trade Unions, a collection of articles and speeches, (Moscow: Progress, 1978), 540 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [Large file: 45,956 KB]
• [Book:] V. I. Lenin — Party Work in the Masses, a collection of articles and excerpts, (Moscow: 1969), 171 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,549 KB]
  Also available in individual chapters in the BannedThought.net Political Theory section at: https://www.bannedthought.net/MLM-Theory/index.htm
• [Book:] Lenin — On Participation of the People in Government, a collection of articles and excerpts, (Moscow: 1979), 302 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,541 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On the Soviet State Apparatus: Articles and Speeches, (Moscow: Progress, 1977), 447 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [8,656 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On Socialist Economic Organisation, (Moscow: Progress, 1967), 397 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [17,790 KB]  
• [Book:] Lenin’s Economic Writings, edited by Meghnad Desai, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1989)), 372 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,898 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On State Capitalism During the Transition to Socialism, (Moscow: Progress, 1983)), 274 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [9,709 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin Versus Trotsky and His Followers, (Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1981), selections from his collected works, 130 pages (but missing pp. 106-107).   Searchable PDF format   [3,977 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On the Paris Commune, a collection of articles and excerpts, (Moscow: Progress, 1970), 167 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [16,970 KB]
• “Lenin — Women and Society”, an early collection of articles and excerpts, (NY: International, 1938), 36 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,194 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On Youth, a collection of articles and excerpts, (Moscow: Progress, 1967), 303 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [11,423 KB]
• “Lenin — About the Younger Generation”, a collection of excerpts, (Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1985), 60 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,183 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On Socialist Ideology and Culture, a collection of articles and excerpts, (Moscow: Progress, 1985), 228 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [8,176 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On Literature and Art, a collection of articles and excerpts, (Moscow: Progress, 1978), 335 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [25,041 KB]
• “Lenin — On Religion”, an early collection of articles and excerpts, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, n.d. [but early 1930s]), 64 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,430 KB]
• “Lenin — On Religion”, a collection of articles and excerpts, (Moscow: Progress, 1984), 88 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,747 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On Britain, a collection of articles and excerpts organized by topic, compiled, with an Introduction, by Harry Pollitt, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1984 (1941)), 340 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [14,785 KB]
• [Book:] V. I. Lenin — On Britain, a collection of articles and excerpts, in chronological order, (Moscow: FLPH, 1959 (or 1969?)), 628 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [14,785 KB]
• “Lenin — On Ireland”, (Belfast: New Books, 1970), 40 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,876 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On the United States of America, a collection of articles and excerpts, (Moscow: Progress, 1982), 636 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [Very large file: 81,647 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — Comrade and Man, a collection of short comments by Lenin from letters, telegrams, notes, etc., showing the sort of person he was, (Moscow: Progress, n.d. (1950s or 1960s?), 209 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [7,144 KB]
• See also: Collections of Excerpts from Multiple Major Creators of MLM Theory on Specific Topics, such as excerpts from the writings of Marx, Engels and Lenin, at: https://www.bannedthought.net/MLM-Theory/index.htm#Collections

Individual Works by Lenin (Books, Pamphlets, and Articles):

• “On the So-Called Market Question”, by V. I. Lenin, (written in 1893), (Moscow: Progress, 1968), 56 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,969 KB]
• [Book:] “A Characterisation of Economic Romanticism”, by V. I. Lenin, (written in the spring of 1897), (Moscow: Progress, 1967), 150 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,835 KB]
• [Book:] What Is To Be Done?, by V. I. Lenin, (Peking: FLP, 1975), 266 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [8,917 KB]
  Commentary on What Is To Be Done? (from various perspectives):
  • “Lenin’s ‘What Is To Be Done?’”, by V. P. Filatov, (Moscow: Progress, 1987), 116 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,573 KB]
• [Book:] One Step Forward, Two steps Back, by V. I. Lenin, (May 1904), (Peking: FLP, 1976), 316 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [10,324 KB]
• [Book:] “Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution”, by V. I. Lenin, (June-July 1905), (Peking: FLP, 1970), 180 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,560 KB]
  Alternate Reprinted Edition, (Paris: Foreign Languages Press, 2021), 160 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,281 KB]
• “Socialism and Religion”, by V. I. Lenin, (Dec. 3, 1905), (Moscow: Progress, 1968), 12 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [375 KB]
• [Book:] Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, by V. I. Lenin, (Peking: FLP, 1972), 466 pages. Lenin’s major study of materialist philosophy together with strong criticism of its idealist opponents within the Russian revolutionary movement, published in 1908.   Searchable PDF format   [13,950 KB]
  Collected Works edition [volume 14): (Moscow: Progress, 1968), 408 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,550 KB]
  Commentary on Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (from various perspectives):
  • “Lenin’s ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’”, by A. O. Sternin, (Moscow: Progress, 1988), 172 pages. (Darkened paper, but quite legible.)   Searchable PDF format   [6,305 KB]
  • “Positivism of Ernst Mach: Vladimir Lenin’s Critique from (the) Philosophical Work Materialism and Empirio-Criticism”, by Nguyen Trong Nghia (Vietnam), European Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 3, #2, 2019, 13 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [781 KB]
  • “A Linguistic Philosopher Looks at Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism”, by Antony Flew, Praxis journal [Yugoslav Ed.], 1967, No. 1, 15 pages. A confused and rather ridiculous attempt by a British “linguistic” philosopher to argue that Lenin too readily dismissed idealist philosophers because he did not take their point of view and their reasoning seriously! It is true, of course, that if you start from the idealist perspectives of Descartes, Hume, Kant, etc., then materialism of any sort will seem to be erroneous. Flew called himself a materialist (or “realist”) and an atheist for decades, but in his last years showed his own deep ambivalence and confusion about all that when he finally decided that he believed in God after all.   Searchable PDF format   [370 KB]
  • “On Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism”, by David Bakhurst, Studies in East European Thought (2018), No. 70, pp. 107-119. This article by a bourgeois academic rather grudgingly admits that the materialist (or “realist”) views championed by Lenin are correct, but then argues that they are not original and important, and that therefore Lenin was not really a philosopher of importance. Of course Lenin never claimed to be a professional philosopher, and the purpose of his book was to criticize idealist thinking within the revolutionary movement. But bourgeois commentators take exception to that political thrust too; apparently they see it as improper and pointless to criticize such ideological errors in a political movement, especially in the harsh way that Lenin did! Bakhurst then goes on to blame Lenin’s book for supposedly providing such a bad example during the Stalin era. Quite a silly article!   Searchable PDF format   [802 KB]
• “Differences in the European Labour Movement”, by V. I. Lenin, (Dec. 16, 1910), (Moscow: Progress, 1976), 20 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [532 KB]
• “The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism”, by V. I. Lenin, published in March 1913, (Peking: FLP, 1977), 18 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [412 KB]
• “The Right of Nations to Self-Determination”, by V. I. Lenin, written in early 1914, (Moscow: Progress, 1967), 88 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,196 KB]
• “Karl Marx”, “A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism”, by V. I. Lenin, written July-Nov. 1914, (Peking: FLP, 1967), 76 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,070 KB]
  [Same article, with a different title and translation:] “The Teachings of Karl Marx”, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, Little Lenin Library #1, 1937), 56 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,673 KB]
• “The National Pride of the Great Russians”, by V. I. Lenin, written in December 1914, (Moscow: FLPH, 1951), 20 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [286 KB]
• “The War and the Second International”, by V. I. Lenin, two documents written in 1914, “The Collapse of the Second International” and “The War and Russian Social-Democracy”, (London: Martin Lawrence, n.d. [but c. 1931]), Little Lenin Library #2, 68 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,553 KB]
• “Socialism and War” [“The Attitude of the R.S.D.L.P. Towards the War”], by V. I. Lenin, written in Aug. 1915, (Moscow: Progress, 1967), 60 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,162 KB]
• “Reply to P. Kievsky (Y. Pyatakov)”, letter from Lenin written in August-September 1916, on the theme that though war is horrible we should not let the thought of it oppress our revolutionary thinking, 6 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [146 KB]
• Two essays: “On the Slogan for a United States of Europe” (Aug. 23, 1915), and “The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution” (Sept. 1916), by V. I. Lenin, (Moscow: Progress, 1980 (1966)), 36 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,026 KB]
• “A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism”, by V. I. Lenin, (written Aug.-Oct. 1916), (Moscow: Progress, 1974), 68 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,493 KB]
• [Book:] Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: A Popular Outline, by V. I. Lenin, (Peking: FLP, 1975). [This edition is not yet available.]
  London edition (1939): (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1939), Little Lenin Library, #15, 136 pages (with a few damaged pages repaired).   Searchable PDF format   [5,587 KB]
  Moscow edition (1983): (Moscow: Progress, 1983), 132 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,282 KB]
  New Data for V. I. Lenin’s “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism”, ed. by E. Varga and L. Mendelsohn, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, n.d. [but 1938]), 336 pages. Somewhat light image, but quite legible.   Searchable PDF format   [16,738 KB]
  Commentary on this work by Lenin (from various perspectives):
  • “Lenin’s ‘Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism’”, by I. Rudakova, (Moscow: Progress, 1988), 116 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,904 KB]
• [Book:] The State and Revolution, by V. I. Lenin, (Aug.-Sept. 1917), (Peking: FLP, 1973), 166 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,126 KB]
  London edition (1933): (London: Martin Lawrence, 1933), 104 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,096 KB]
  Preparatory Materials and Commentary on The State and Revolution (from various perspectives):
  • Lenin’s Notebook: Lenin — On the State, preparatory material for the book The State and Revolution, written in January-February 1917, (Moscow: Progress, 1972), 144 pages. This fascinating volume is the English translation from Volume 33 of Lenin’s Collected Works, 5th Russian edition. It shows how Lenin studied the topic of the state, reading not only works by Marx and Engels, but materials by others, including both real and dubious Marxist writers, and how he organized his notes into a book.   Searchable PDF format   [6,419 KB]
    
  • “Lenin’s ‘The State and Revolution’”, by V. Gavrilov, (Moscow: Progress, 1988), 92 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,030 KB]
• “Lecture on the 1905 Revolution”, by V. I. Lenin, (Jan. 22, 1917), (Moscow: Progress, 1968), 24 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [866 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — On War and Peace — Three Articles, written in 1915-1917, (Peking: FLP, 1966), 124 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,368 KB]
• “The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution”, by V. I. Lenin, also known as the “April Theses”, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, n.d.), Little Lenin Library #9, 56 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,190 KB]
• “The April Conference”, by V. I. Lenin, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1932), Little Lenin Library #10, 66 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,044 KB]
• “The War and the Workers”, speech by V. I. Lenin, (May 27, 1917), (NY: International, 1929), Little Lenin Library #24, 36 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,495 KB]
• “The Deception of the People by the Slogans of Equality and Freedom”, by V. I. Lenin, (NY: International, 1942), Little Lenin Library #19, 52 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,797 KB]
• “Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?”, by V. I. Lenin, (Nov. 9, 1917), (Moscow: Progress, 1971), 68 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,760 KB]
• “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government”, by V. I. Lenin, written in 1917, (Moscow: FLPH, 1951), 84 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,416 KB]
• [Book:] “The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky”, by V. I. Lenin, written Oct.-Nov. 1918, (Peking: FLP, 1975), 178 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,039 KB]
• “Speeches at the Eighth Party Congress”, by V. I. Lenin, (March 18-23, 1919), (Moscow: Progress, 1971), 92 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,724 KB]
• “A Great Beginning”, by V. I. Lenin, on the heroism of the workers in the rear and “Communist Subbotniks”, June 28, 1919, (Peking: FLP, 1977), 42 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,182 KB]
• “The State”, by V. I. Lenin, a lecture delivered at the Sverdlov University, July 11, 1919, (Peking: FLP, 1970), 38 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [893 KB]
• [Book:] ‘Left-Wing’ Communism, an Infantile Disorder, by V. I. Lenin, (Peking: FLP, 1970), 146 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,527 KB]
• “The Third International and Its Place in History”, by V. I. Lenin, written in 1919, (Moscow: Progress, 1971), 56 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,137 KB]
• “Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, by V. I. Lenin, (Oct. 30, 1919), (Peking: FLP, 1975), 26 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [628 KB]
• “The Tasks of the Youth Leagues”, by V. I. Lenin, a speech delivered at the Third All-Russian Congress of the Russian Young Communist League, Oct. 2, 1920. This speech includes Lenin’s most extensive comments on morality and the Marxist-Leninist view of ethics. (Peking: FLP, 1975), 34 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [906 KB]
  Moscow edition (1969): (Moscow: Progress, 1969), 24 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [851 KB]
• “On Co-operation”, an article dictated by Lenin to a transcriber on January 4-6, 2023; LCW 33. [Separate pamphlet not yet available.]
  Commentary on this work (from various perspectives):
  • “Lenin’s ‘On Co-operation’”, by S. [Sergei] Serayev, (Moscow: Progress, 1984), 82 pages. Fair quality double-page scan, but quite legible.   Searchable PDF format   [5,910 KB]

Biographies and Works about Lenin:

• “Lenin”, by R. Palme Dutt, a leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain. A short early biography. (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1933), 102 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,618 KB]
• [Book:] Life of Lenin, by P. Kerzhentsev, (NY: International, 1939), 340 pages.   PDF format   [12,789 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — A Biography, by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute (Moscow), (London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [but during World War II, probably 1943]), 210 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [13,633 KB];   Epub reprint   [545 pages; 628 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — A Biography, by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, edited by P. N. Pospelov, (Moscow: Progress, 2nd printing, 1966), 639 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [Very large file: 84,416 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — A Biography, by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, (Moscow: Progress, 1983), 573 pages. Fairly poor scan; our apologies.   Searchable PDF format   [Large file: 79,097 KB]
• [Book:] V. I. Lenin — A Short Biography, translated into English from the 6th Russian edition prepared by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, CC of the CPSU, 1968. (Moscow: Progress, 4th revised edition 1969), 234 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,552 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin — Life and Work, by Zevin and Golikov, (Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1975), 228 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [10,840 KB]
  Second Edition (1977), 212 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [15,131 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin: Life and Works, a Chronology of Lenin’s life, by Gerda & Hermann Weber, (London: MacMillan, 1980, [Originally published in Munich in German in 1974]), 240 pages. Fascinating details, at times almost about the day-to-day life and work of Lenin.   Searchable PDF format   [10,910 KB]
• [Book:] 《列宁在-九一八年》 [“Lenin in 1918”], 铉铉上海出版社出版 [Published by the Hyun Hyun Shanghai Publishing House], 1972, 152 pages. This is a book of illustrations of high quality on every page, along with annotations in Chinese. This is not a children's book, but rather an excellent book of revolutionary politics for adults.   Chinese: Searchable PDF format   [5,907 KB]
• [Books:] Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Pages From His Life - With Reminscences of His Associates, multi-volume work, (Moscow: Novosti).
  • Volume 1: The Road to Revolution (1870-1904), 1990, 174 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [6,200 KB]
  • Volume 2: The First Assault Against Tsarism (1905-07), 1990, 175 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [6,476 KB]
  • Later volumes: Not available. (If they were even published.)
• “Lenin in Action: Personal Reminiscences of Lenin in the Early Days of Soviet Power”, (London: Martin Lawrence, 1934), 68 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,611 KB]
• [Book:] They Knew Lenin: Reminiscences of Foreign Contemporaries, (Moscow: Progress, 1968), 290 pages (in doublel-page format). (A somewhat light and mediocre scan; our apologies.)   Searchable PDF format   [37,751 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin and Gorky — Letters, Reminscences, Articles, (Moscow: Progress, 1973), 432 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [30,744 KB]
• “My Recollections of Lenin”, by Klara Zetkin, (Moscow: FLPH, 1956), 92 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,805 KB]
• “The So-Called ‘Lenin Testament’”, by W. B. Bland, for the Communist League (UK) [a pro-Albania organization], 1991, 12 large pages (8.27 x 21.97 inches). Especially focuses on Lenin’s supposed appraisal of Stalin at a time when Lenin was extremely ill and cut off from contact with almost all comrades.   PDF format   [245 KB]
  This document is also available in HTML format, with an introduction by Michael Harrison, at: https://michaelharrison.org.uk/2020/02/the-so-called-lenin-testament/
• [Book:] Lenin’s Teaching on the World Economy and Its Relevance to Our Times, by K. Mikulsky, (Moscow: Progress, 1975), 340 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [6,075 KB]
• “Lenin’s Impact on the United States”, a special issue of the magazine New World Review (Winter 1970), 228 pages. [Although published by the notoriously revisionist CPUSA, this issue does also contain some interesting material.]   Searchable PDF format   [5,0033 KB]
• “Lenin on the Woman Question”, by Clara Zetkin, (NY: International, 1934), 33 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,896 KB]
• “How Lenin Wrote for the Masses”, edited by B. Riley, (London: New Era Books, 1974), 28 pages. Consists of three articles (or excerpts):
  
  • “Oppose Stereotyped Party Writing”, by Mao Zedong.
  • “How Lenin Wrote for the Masses”, by N. Krupskaya [Lenin’s wife and comrade]
  • “On Strikes” [1899], by Lenin [as an example of his writing for the workers]
  Searchable PDF format   [957 KB]
• [Book:] Lenin and Modern Natural Science, ed. by M. E. Omelyanovsky, (Moscow: Progress, 1978), 432 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,605 KB]
• [Book:] Leninist Standards of Party Life, by I. Pronin and M. Stepichev, (Moscow: Progress, 1969), 146 pages. Although this book, like some others in this section, was written during the revisionist, state-capitalist era of the Soviet Union, it contains many quotations directly from Lenin and thus has at least some quite useful revolutionary content.   Searchable PDF format   [12,050 KB]
• Fine Drawings of Lenin, a collection published by the Communist Party of Germany on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lenin (1970). 12 pages (missing two drawings).   German: PDF format   [3,911 KB];   German: WinDjView format   [8,089 KB]
• [Book:] The Central Lenin Museum: A Guide, compiled by V. I. Devyatov, et al., (Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1986), 184 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [14,394 KB]

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