p In Lenin’s theoretical works devoted to the strategy and tactics of the world communist movement considerable prominence is given to problems of the national liberation movements and revolutions, to ascertaining the ways and means of delivering enslaved peoples from imperialist tyranny, to the prospects for their social development, and to defining the role and place of the struggle for national liberation in the world revolutionary process.

In enlarging on the views of Marx and Engels on the problem of the attitude of the working class to massive national liberation movements, Lenin considered these movements against the background of imperialism and showed their relationship with the revolutionary working-class movement. From both the theoretical and political angles he demonstrated that in the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolutions the national liberation movement was an integrated process governed by definite economic and social laws and that it was intrinsically democratic and anti-capitalist.