V. I. Lenin the Third International and Its Place
Workers of Alf. Countries, Unite! V. I. Lenin The Third International and Its Place in History OCTOBER BOOKS Progress Publishers 4B TEMPLE COURT LIVERPOOL 2 Moscow 1971 A C.P.B.M.L. BOOKSHOP PUBLISHERS' NOTE CONTENTS This book includes three articles written Page by Lenin in 1919: "The Third International and Its Place in History", "The Heroes of THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL AND ITS PLACE IN HISTORY 5 the Berne International" and "The Tasks of THE HEROES OF THE BERNE INTERNATIONAL . 14 the Third International". The translations are taken from Volume 29 THE TASKS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL. Ramsay Mac of V. I. Lenin's Collected Works prepared Donald on the Third International 24 by Progress Publishers, Moscow. Corrections have been made in accordance I 27 with the Fifth Russian edition of the II 28 Collected Works. III 30 IV 33 v 36 VI 39 Notes 43 Name Index ... 49 First printing 1971 2-212 Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL AND ITS PLACE IN HISTORY The imperialists of the Entente 1 countries are blockading Russia in an effort to cut off the Soviet Republic, as a seat of infection, from the capitalist world. These people, who boast about their "democratic" institutions, are so blinded by their hatred of the Soviet Republic that they do not see how ridiculous they are making themselves. Just think of it, the advanced, most civilised and "democratic" countries, armed to the teeth and enjoying undivided military sway over the whole world, are mortally afraid of the ideological infection coming from a ruined, starving, backward, and even, they assert, semi-savage country! This contradiction alone is opening the eyes of the working masses in all countries and helping to expose the hypocrisy of the imperialists Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Wilson and their governments.
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