Vladimir Lenin ( – 21 January 1924) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917, and of the Soviet Union from 1922. He was incapacitated by a series of strokes which began in May 1922, ending in his death early in 1924.

Collected Works

The Lenin Complete Collected Works [Pol'noe sobranie sochinenii], the fifth Russian edition of Lenin's writings, is incorporated in 55 bound volumes, each of about 650 pages. The English edition published by Progress Publishers in Moscow from 1960 to 1970, is primarily based on the fourth Russian edition, published in the 1940s, and consists of 45 volumes. The final volumes of this English edition supplement the content of the Russian fourth edition with a selection of material from the Russian fifth edition.

The following table presents the general contents of each volume of the English edition.

Volume Content Dates Notes Volume Link 1 Writings 1893 – 1894 LINK 2 Writings 1895 – 1897 LINK 3 Book — Development of Capitalism in Russia LINK 4 Writings 1898 – Feb. 1901 LINK 5 Writings May 1901 – Feb. 1902 What Is to Be Done? LINK 6 Writings Jan. 1902 – Aug. 1903 Second Congress of the RSDLP LINK 7 Writings Sept. 1903 – Dec. 1904 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back LINK 8 Writings Jan. 1905 – July 1905 LINK 9 Writings June 1905 – Nov. 1905 Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution LINK 10 Writings Nov. 1905 – June 1906 LINK 11 Writings June 1906 – Jan. 1907 LINK 12 Writings Jan. 1907 – June 1907 LINK 13 Writings June 1907 – April 1908 LINK 14 Book — Materialism and Empiriocriticism LINK 15 Writings March 1908 – Aug. 1909 LINK 16 Writings Sept. 1909 – Dec. 1910 LINK 17 Writings Dec. 1910 – April 1912 LINK 18 Writings April 1912 – March 1913 LINK 19 Writings March 1913 – Dec. 1913 LINK 20 Writings Dec. 1913 – Aug. 1914 LINK 21 Writings Aug. 1914 – Dec. 1915 LINK 22 Writings Dec. 1915 – July 1916 Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism LINK 23 Writings Aug. 1916 – March 1917 Letters from Afar LINK 24 Writings April 1917 – May 1917 "The April Theses" LINK 25 Writings June 1917 – Sept. 1917 The State and Revolution LINK 26 Writings Sept. 1917 – Feb. 1918 Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? LINK 27 Writings Feb. 1918 – July 1918 LINK 28 Writings July 1918 – March 1919 The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky LINK 29 Writings March 1919 – Aug. 1919 Draft Program of the RCP(b) LINK 30 Writings Sept. 1919 – April 1920 LINK 31 Writings April 1920 – Dec. 1920 "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder LINK 32 Writings Dec. 1920 – Aug. 1921 The Tax in Kind LINK 33 Writings Aug. 1921 – March 1923 On Cooperation / Better Fewer, But Better LINK 34 Correspondence 1895 – 1911 LINK 35 Correspondence 1912 – 1922 LINK 36 Correspondence 1900 – 1923 Supplemental correspondence. LINK 37 Correspondence 1893 – 1922 Correspondence with relatives. LINK 38 Notebooks — Philosophical notebooks. LINK 39 Notebooks — Notebooks on Imperialism LINK 40 Notebooks — Agrarian Notebooks LINK 41 Writings 1896 – 1917 Addenda from 5th edition. LINK 42 Writings 1917 – 1923 Addenda from 5th edition. LINK 43 Correspondence 1893 – 1917 Addenda from 5th edition. LINK 44 Correspondence 1917 – 1920 Addenda from 5th edition. LINK 45 Correspondence 1920 – 1923 Addenda from 5th edition. LINK

Selected Works Lenin Selected Works comprise 3 volumes, translated into English by Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1970. The following table presents works included.