The National Question and Communism: Vienna-Lviv, Publishing House “Adriia”, 1920, 18 p.

This pamphlet of the Communist Party of Eastern Galicia was published in the series “Communist Library.” It contains two articles and programmatic materials devoted to the national question in the communist interpretation. In both articles, the authors consider national liberation as a component of the general proletarian revolution and a necessary condition for its success. Liberation here means replacing national solidarity with class solidarity: it will concern the proletariat as a class and will be guided not by the will of the nation but by revolutionary vision. The authors treat national oppression primarily as a class problem inherent in all bourgeois nations, one that can be resolved by renouncing national consciousness and through proletarian unity.

Contents

Liberation of Peoples

The National Question and Communism

The Program of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Russia and Ukraine in the Field of National Relations

Resolution of the 4th All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets on Relations between the Ukrainian SSR and the Russian SFSR