Marxism and the National and Colonial Question

Originally published 1934 a collection of articles and speeches on the nationalities question in the Soviet Union. Before the 1917 revolution Stalin was the Communist Party''s expert on the nationalities problem; after the revolution he became Commissar for the Nationalities in the early years of the Soviet Union. The nationalities problem was a debate over which national groups of the old Russian Empire were to remain a part of the new Soviet Union and which should form independent nations. The material in this book covers Finland Georgia Poland and Ukraine; the national question in Yugoslavia; and many related topics.