The full text of the 1903 congress that marked the birth of Bolshevism. Lenin analyzed this verbatim record in his book One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Learn More

This book was written by Lenin in 1916 in the midst of World War I. Lenin relates the growth of monopoly and the enormous concentration of finance capital in a few hands to a new stage in capitalist development leading to inevitable military clashes between industrial nations over markets and sources of raw materials. Learn More

In this work Lenin subjects to careful analysis the minutes of the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party held in 1903. The congress ended in a split between the Bolshevik and Menshevik tendencies.
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One of the most important works of political theory ever written. Opposing the Russian Economists, who were generally indifferent to questions of theory, Lenin argued that "only a party that is guided by the most advanced revolutionary theory" will be able to provide the working class with revolutionary leadership. Learn More