THE present' volume of Selected Works coincides with Volume IV,Parts I and II of the Russian edition of Selected W orks issued by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, Moscow, 1933 edition.
Readers are urged to make full use of the explanatory notes in the appendix. These are indicated by an asterisk (*) in the text,and the note in question can be found under the number in the explanatory notes corresponding to the page on which it occurs.Where more than one note occurs on a page, subsequent notes are indicated by two or more asterisks as the case may be. Footnotes are indicated by superior figures.
The editor wishes to acknowledge the co-operation in preparing this volume of A. Petrova and I. Mingulin who carefully compared the manuscript of the English translation with the Russian text of Lenin's Selected Works and by their valuable suggestions greatly assisted him in his work.