Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. Based in Marxism, his political theories are known as Leninism.
This is a Vladimir Lenin bibliography, including writings, speeches, letters and other works.
His Collected Works comprise 54 volumes, each of about 650 pages, translated into English in 45 volumes by Progress Publishers, Moscow 1960–70. The following table presents the works contained.[1]
Title | Year[note 1] |
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New Economic Developments in Peasant Life | 1893 |
On the So-called Market Question | 1893 |
What the Friends of the People are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats | 1894 |
The Economic Content of Narodism and the Criticism of it in Mr. Struve's Book. (The Reflection of Marxism in Bourgeois Literature. | 1894 |
Frederick Engels | 1895 |
Explanation of the Law on Fines Imposed on Factory Workers | 1895 |
Gymnasium Farms and Corrective Gymnasia (Russkoye Bogatstvo) | 1895 |
To the Working Men and Women of the Thornton Factory | 1895 |
What are our Ministers Thinking About? | 1895 |
Draft and Explanation of a Programme for the Social-Democratic Party | 1895 |
To the Tsarist Government | 1896 |
A Characterisation of Economic Romanticism | 1896 |
The New Factory Law | 1896 |
About a Certain Newspaper Article | 1896 |
The Handicraft Census of 1894-1895 in Perm Gubernia and General Problems of "Handicraft" Industry | 1896 |
The Heritage We Renounce | 1896 |
Lenin Selected Works comprise 3 volumes, translated into English by Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1970. The following table presents works included.
Title | Year[note 2] |
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Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of Marxism | 1914[2] |
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism | 1913[3] |
Marxism and Revisionism | 1908 |
The Heritage We Renounce | 1897[4] |
What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of our Movement | 1901–2[5] |
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (The Crisis in Our Party) | 1904[6] |
The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia - 1905 | |
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution | 1905[7] |
Lessons of the Moscow Uprising - 1906 | |
On the Road - 1909 | |
In Memory of Herzen - 1912 | |
Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity | 1914[8] |
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination | 1914[9] |
The War and Russian Social-Democracy - 1914 | |
On the National Pride of the Great Russians - 1914 | |
On the Slogan for a United States of Europe - 1915 | |
Editorial Comment by Sotsial-Demokrat on the Manifesto on War Issued by the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. - 1915 | |
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism | 1916[10] |
The Nascent Trend of Imperialist Economism - 1916 | |
The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution | 1916[11] |
Letters from Afar - 1917 | |
The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (The April Theses) | 1917[12] |
The Dual Power - 1917 | |
The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution | 1917[13] |
The Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. (B.) | 1917[14] |
Introduction to the Resolutions of the Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) - 1917 | |
First All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies - 1917 | |
The Eighteenth of June - 1917 | |
What Could the Cadets have Counted On When They Withdrew From the Cabinet? - 1917 | |
Where is State Power and Where is Counter-Revolution? - 1917 | |
Three Crises - 1917 | |
The Question of the Bolshevik Leaders Appearing in Court - 1917 | |
The Political Situation - 1917 | |
Letter to the Editors of Proletarskoye Dyelo - 1917 | |
On Slogans - 1917 | |
Lessons of the Revolution | 1917[15] |
To the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. - 1917 | |
On Compromises - 1917 | |
Draft Resolution On the Present Political Situation - 1917 | |
The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It | 1917[16] |
One of the Fundamental Questions of the Revolution - 1917 | |
The Russian Revolution and Civil War - 1917 | |
The State and Revolution | 1917[17] |
Marxism and Insurrection - 1917 | |
From a Publicist's Diary - 1917 | |
The Crisis Has Matured | 1917[18] |
Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? - 1917 | |
Letter to the Central Committee, the Moscow and Petrograd Committees and the Bolshevik Members of the Petrograd and Moscow Soviets - 1917 | |
Advice of an Onlooker - 1917 | |
Letter to the Bolshevik Comrades Attending the Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region - 1917 | |
Meeting of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.), October 10 (23) - 1917 | |
Meeting of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.), October 16 (29) - 1917 | |
Letter to Bolshevik Party Members - 1917 | |
Letter to the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) - 1917 | |
Letter to Y. M. Sverdlov - 1917 | |
Letter to Central Committee Members - 1917 | |
To the Citizens of Russia! - 1917 | |
Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies | 1917[19] |
Wireless Message of the Council of People's Commissars, October 30 (November 12) - 1917 | |
Speeches at a Meeting of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.), November 1 (14) - 1917 | |
Resolution of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) On the Opposition Within the Central Committee, November 2 (15) - 1917 | |
Ultimatum From the Majority on the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) to the Minority - 1917 | |
To the Population - 1917 | |
Reply to Questions From Peasants - 1917 | |
From the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - 1917 | |
The Extraordinary All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Peasants' Deputies - 1917 | |
Alliance Between the Workers and the Working and Exploited Peasants - 1917 | |
Session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, December 1 (14) - 1917 | |
Report On the Economic Condition of the Petrograd Workers and the Tasks of the Working Class Delivered at a Meeting of the Workers' Section of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, December 4 (17) - 1917 | |
Theses on the Constituent Assembly - 1917 | |
For Bread and Peace - 1917 | |
Speech on the Nationalisation of the Banks Delivered at a Meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, December 14 (27) - 1917 | |
Draft Decree On the Nationalisation of the Banks and on Measures Necessary For Its Implementation - 1917 | |
How to Organise Competition? - 1917 | |
Declaration of Rights of the Working and Exploited People - 1918 | |
Draft Decree On the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly - 1918 | |
On the History of the Question of the Unfortunate Peace - 1918 | |
Afterword to the Theses On the Question of the Immediate Conclusion of a Separate and Annexationist Peace - 1918 | |
Speeches On War and Peace at a Meeting of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.), January 11 (24) - 1918 | |
Third All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, January 10-18 (23-31) - 1918 | |
Draft Wireless Message to the Government of the German Reich - 1918 | |
The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger! - 1918 | |
Position of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks) On the Question of the Separate and Annexationist Peace - 1918 | |
A Painful But Necessary Lesson - 1918 | |
Draft Decision of the Council of People's Commissars On the Evacuation of the Government - 1918 | |
Strange and Monstrous - 1918 | |
Extraordinary Seventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), March 6-8 | 1918[20] |
The Chief Task of Our Day - 1918 | |
Extraordinary Fourth All-Russia Congress Of Soviets, March 14-16 | 1918[21] |
The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government | 1918[22] |
Draft Plan of Scientific and Technical Work - 1918 | |
Six Theses On the Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government - 1918 | |
"Left-Wing" Childishness and the Petty-Bourgeois Mentality | 1918[23] |
Theses On The Present Political Situation | 1918[24] |
On the Famine - 1918 | |
Speech at the First All-Russia Congress of Economic Councils - 1918 | |
Comments On the Draft "Regulations For the Management of the Nationalised Enterprises" - 1918 | |
Fifth All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers', Peasants', Soldiers' and Red Army Deputies - 1918 | |
Speech at a Meeting in Presnya District, July 26 - 1918 | |
Speech at a Joint Session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet, Factory Committees and Trade Unions of Moscow, July 29 - 1918 | |
Comrade Workers, Forward to the Last, Decisive Fight! - 1918 | |
Letter to American Workers - 1918 | |
Joint Session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet, Factory Committees and Trade Unions - 1918 | |
The Valuable Admissions of Pitirim Sorokin - 1918 | |
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky | 1918[25] |
First Congress of the Communist International, March 2-6 - 1919 | |
Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), March 18-23 | 1919[26] |
Theses of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) On the Situation On the Eastern Front - 1919 | |
Greetings to the Hungarian Workers - 1919 | |
A Great Beginning - 1919 | |
All Out for the Fight Against Denikin! | 1919[27] |
The State - 1919 | |
Letter to the Workers and Peasants Apropos of the Victory Over Kolchak - 1919 | |
The Example of the Petrograd Workers - 1918 | |
Results of Party Week in Moscow and Our Tasks - 1918 | |
Economics And Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat | 1919[28] |
Address to the Second All-Russia Congress of Communist Organisations of the Peoples of the East, November 22 - 1919 | |
Eighth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B.), December 2-4 - 1919 | |
Draft Resolution On Foreign Policy - 1919 | |
Speech Delivered at the First Congress of Agricultural Communes and Agricultural Artels - 1919 | |
Letter to the Workers and Peasants of the Ukraine Apropos of the Victories Over Denikin - 1919 | |
In Reply to Questions Put By Karl Wiegand, Berlin Correspondent of Universal Service - 1920 | |
Interview With Lincoln Eyre, Correspondent of the American Newspaper The World - 1920 | |
Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), March 29-April 5 - 1920 | |
Report of the Central Committee, March 29 - 1920 | |
From the Destruction of the Old Social System to the Creation of the New - 1920 | |
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder | 1920[29] |
Speech to Men of the Red Army Leaving for the Polish Front - 1920 | |
Theses for the Second Congress of the Communist International | 1920[30] |
Second Congress of the Communist International, July 19-August 7 - 1920 | |
The Tasks of the Youth Leagues - 1920 | |
On Proletarian Culture - 1920 | |
Speech Delivered at an all-Russia Conference of Political Education Workers of Gubernia and Uyezd Education Departments, November 3 - 1920 | |
Draft Resolution on "The Tasks of the Trade Unions, and the Methods of Their Accomplishments" - 1920 | |
Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets, December 22-29 - 1920 | |
Once Again On The Trade Unions, The Current Situation and the Mistakes of Trotsky and Buhkarin | 1921[31] |
Integrated Economic Plan - 1920 | |
Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), March 8-16 | 1921[32] |
The Tax in Kind | 1921[33] |
Tenth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B.), May 26-28 - 1921 | |
Third Congress Of The Communist International | 1921[34] |
Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution - 1921 | |
The Importance of Gold Now and After the Complete Victory of Socialism - 1921 | |
Directives For the Soviet Delegation to the Genoa Conference - 1922 | |
On the Significance of Militant Materialism - 1922 | |
Eleventh Congress Of The R.C.P.(B.) | 1922[35] |
On the Tenth Anniversary of Pravda - 1922 | |
On the Establishment of the U.S.S.R. - 1922 | |
RE The Monopoly of the Foreign Trade - 1922 | |
Fourth Congress of the Communist International, November 5-December 5 - 1922 | |
Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution - 1922 | |
Speech at a Plenary Session of the Moscow Soviet, November 20 - 1922 | |
Last Letters and Articles - 1922 | |
Letter to the Congress, December 23 - 1922 | |
Letter to the Congress, December 24 - 1922 | |
Addition to the Letter of December 24, 1922 - 1922 | |
Granting Legislative Functions to the State Planning Commission - 1922 | |
Addition to the Section on Increasing the Number of C.C. Members - 1922 | |
The Question of Nationalities or "Autonomisation" - 1922 | |
The Question of Nationalities or "Autonomisation" (Continued) - 1922 | |
Pages From a Diary - 1923 | |
On Co-operation - 1923 | |
Our Revolution - 1923 | |
How We Should Reorganise the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection - 1923 | |
Better Fewer, But Better - 1923 |
Title | Year |
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Our Immediate Task | 1899[36] |
Materialism and Empirio-criticism | 1909[37] |
Philosophical Notebooks | 1916[38] |