TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESIS ON NATIONAL AND COLONIAL QUESTIONS
OUTLINE OF A PLAN AND NOTES*
Early June 1920
Commission on the National Question (June 1, 1920).
Our Party Program on the National Question (its sub‑points).
The Austrian Experience.
The Ukrainian Experience.
The Belgian Experience.
Alsace–Lorraine.
The Balkan Experience.
Danish–German Relations.
Separatism in Germany?
The Eastern Peoples:
Bashkirs, Tatars, Kyrgyz, Turkic peoples.
The Struggle Against Papal Islamism
Colonies...
America and the Blacks.
It is imperative to consult Stalin.
H* 1 —Convergence… the forms of that convergence…
Concrete proposals on how to achieve closer ties.
Should there be a single, unified organization (a party?) working with workers in multiple languages? Or should there be national sub‑divisions? What about finances? What about the appointment of officials?
2) The Abolition of Privileges
(a) What form should this take? Laws? Administrative practices?
(b) “Full Equality” in the Constitution?
Compare with the Constitution of the RSFSR, other relevant laws, and so forth.
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The outline of the plan and the notes pertain to the theses on national and colonial questions that V. I. Lenin was developing for the Second Congress of the Communist International. See Collected Works, Volume XXV, pp. 285–290.