"Lenin walked, or rather ran, into the 'Czar's Room' in a bowler hat, his face chilled, and a sumptuous bouquet in his arms. Hurrying in to the middle of the room, he stopped short in front of ...

The extremely conditional form in which Lenin invoked the right to self-determination was spelled out in his 1913 work on the subject. The fact that he did not endow this right with some eternal ...