num_pages: 388
description: Volume 22 contains works written by Lenin between December 1915 and July 1916. They include his paper, New Data on the Laws Governing the Development of Capitalism in Agriculture. Part One. Capitalism and Agriculture in the United States of America, a critique of the non-Marxist theory of the non-capitalist evolution of agriculture under capitalism.A considerable part of the volume consists of articles substantiating and explaining Bolshevik slogans and the tasks of the proletariat during the imperialist world war of 1914-18, and exposing the avowed social-chauvinists, and also the Centrists, who were actually social-chauvinists. Among them are “Opportunism and the Collapse of the Second International”, “The Tasks of the Opposition in France”, “Peace Without Annexations and the Independence of Poland as Slogans of the Day in Russia”, “Wilhelm Kolb and Georgy Plekhanov”, “The Peace Programme”, “Proposals Submitted by the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. to the Second Socialist Conference”, “German and Non-German Chauvinism”, etc.The present volume includes Lenin’s famous work, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, which gives a Marxist analysis of imperialism, as the final stage of capitalism, and shows that “imperialism is the eve of the social revolution of the proletariat”. On the strength of this analysis, Lenin put forward the new theoretical proposition that initially socialism could triumph in one single capitalist country, and could not triumph in all at once. Lenin formulated his brilliant proposition in two articles: “Slogan for a United States of Europe”, written in August 1915, and “The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution”, written in the autumn of 1916.This was a new theory of socialist revolution which enriched Marxism and developed it.In his theses, “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination”, and the article “The Discussion on Self-Determination Summed Up”, Lenin elaborated the basic propositions of the Bolshevik programme on the national question. In “The Junius Pamphlet” Lenin criticised the political mistakes of the Left-wing Social-Democrats in Germany.Documents published for the first time in an edition of Lenin’s Collected Works are “Draft Resolution on the Convocation of the Second Socialist Conference”, “For the Conference to Be Held on April 24, 1916. Proposal of the Delegation”, and “Letter from the Committee of Organisations Abroad to the Sections of the R.S.D.L.P.”; these are a reflection of Lenin’s struggle against Russian and West-European social-chauvinists and his efforts to strengthen the Bolshevik Party and rally the internationalists in the working-class movement of all countries.
language: English
title: Collected Works, Volume 22: December 1915-July 1916
publisher:  Progress Publishers