This book collects several of Lenin's basic theoretical essays on nationalism and the right of nations to self-determination with historic analyses of Russia and other European countries. -- Back cover.

Before communism, anarchism and syndicalism were central to labour and the Left in the colonial and postcolonial world.Using studies from Africa,Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, this groundbreaking volume examines the revolutionary libertarian Left's class politics and anti-colonialism in the first globalization and imperialism(1870/1930).