Theses Presented to the Second World Congress of the Communist International

Theses Presented to the Second World Congress of the Communist International (1920)
the Comintern, Grigory Zinoviev, and Vladimir Lenin

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THESES

PRESENTED TO THE SECOND WORLD CONGRESS
OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL

(Petrograd—Moscow July 1920).

EDITIONS
of the Communist International
Petrograd, Smolny, 1920

THESES

PRESENTED TO THE SECOND WORLD CONGRESS
OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL

(Petrograd—Moscow July 1920).

EDITIONS

of the Communist International
Petrograd, Smolny, 1920

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INDEX

I.	Theses on the Role of the Communist Party in the Workers' Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	3
II.	The Labour Movement, Shop Committees and the Third International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	20
III.	Theses on the Agrarian Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	36
IV.	Preliminary Draft of some Theses on the National and Colonial Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	55
V.	The Communist Parties and the Question of Parliamentarism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	62
VI.	Draft of Instruction to the Communist Members of the Bourgeois Parliaments and to the Central Committees of Communist Parties, Whose Duty It Is to Direct the Communist Factions of the Bourgeois Parliaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	71
VII.	When and Under What Conditions Soviets of Workers' Deputies Should Be Formed by G. Zinoviev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	77
VIII.	Conditions for Joining the Communist International. Draft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	83
IX.	Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Second Congress of the Communist International by N. Lenin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	93

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