THE present volume of Selected Works coincides with Part I of Vol. V of the Russian six-volume edition of the Selected Works of V. I. Lenin prepared by the Marx-Engels.Lenin Institute, Moscow,published in 1933.

The explanatory notes given in the preceding volumes of Selected Works were translated from the above-mentioned Russian edition.Developments during the past few years, however, imperatively call for a thorough revision of these notes, and the M. E. L. Institute is now engaged in revising them for publication in Russian. This work of revision is taking longer than was antici pated, however; and to wait until it is completed would delay the publication of the remaining volumes of the English edition, Vols. IX, X, XI and XII, and thus cause the main thing, viz,, the text of Lenin's works, to be with-held from the English reader. The publishers therefore believe that they are acting in the English readers’ interest in deciding- -by agreement with the M. E. L. Institute- to omit the explanatory notes from the remaining volumes and complete the publication of the English edition of Selected Works without further delay.