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"Against Federalism" by STALIN (Mar 28, 1917)
Source : Works, Vol. 3, March - October, 1917
Publisher : Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954
marxistsfr.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/03/28.htm
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The first section contains Stalin's pravda article arguing against the opportunist proponents of federalism instead of National Self-Determination.
The second part is a later note added by Stalin, explaining how the Bolsheviks came to accept Federation as suitable form for solving the question of National Self-Determination in Russia.
The first part gives an excellent analysis of the development of national states. From disunited regions to condeferations or federations and finally reaching the highest stage, i.e. the unitary democratic republic where all nationalities live in harmony.
However it was decided later that Russia was not yet ready for such a republic and implementing it would have been chauvinism. Thus a Union of Socialist Republics was created but with the knowledge that it was not yet the highest stage. In the future, with decades of economic & other co-operation, lessening of national strife, a unitary republic would have developed from the federation.
"Against Federalism" by STALIN (Mar 28, 1917)
Source : Works, Vol. 3, March - October, 1917
Publisher : Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954
marxistsfr.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/03/28.htm
____________________________________
The first section contains Stalin's pravda article arguing against the opportunist proponents of federalism instead of National Self-Determination.
The second part is a later note added by Stalin, explaining how the Bolsheviks came to accept Federation as suitable form for solving the question of National Self-Determination in Russia.
The first part gives an excellent analysis of the development of national states. From disunited regions to condeferations or federations and finally reaching the highest stage, i.e. the unitary democratic republic where all nationalities live in harmony.
However it was decided later that Russia was not yet ready for such a republic and implementing it would have been chauvinism. Thus a Union of Socialist Republics was created but with the knowledge that it was not yet the highest stage. In the future, with decades of economic & other co-operation, lessening of national strife, a unitary republic would have developed from the federation.
