A Letter to American Workingmen, from the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
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- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~4,840 words · 23 passages
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- APAVladimir Lenin. (n.d.). A Letter to American Workingmen, from the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/a-letter-to-american-workingmen-from-the-socialist-soviet-republic-of-russia
- MLAVladimir Lenin. A Letter to American Workingmen, from the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/a-letter-to-american-workingmen-from-the-socialist-soviet-republic-of-russia.
- ChicagoVladimir Lenin. A Letter to American Workingmen, from the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/vladimir-lenin/a-letter-to-american-workingmen-from-the-socialist-soviet-republic-of-russia.
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What it is about
An open letter to the workers of the United States (1918), written as the Russian civil war was beginning.
Context and history
Lenin compares the Russian revolution with the American War of Independence and with Lincoln's civil war, reaching for a legitimacy his American readers would recognise. The original is in RUSSIAN. This is an English translation; for citation, the original.
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socialist revolution comes to our assistance with its armies. But these armies exist, they are stronger than ours, they grow, they strive, they become more invincible the longer imperialism with its brutalities continues. Workingmen the world over are breaking with their betrayers, with their Gompers and their Scheidemanns. Inevitably labor is approaching communistic Bolshevistic tactics, is preparing for the proletarian revolution that alone is capable of preserving culture and humanity from destruction. We are invincible, for invincible is the Proletarian Revolution.
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