ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the nationalist question, which concerns the tasks of the University of the Peoples of the East in relation to the colonial and vassal lands of the Orient. It then explores the difference between these lands and the Soviet Republics of the East. The liberation of colonial and vassal lands from the yoke of imperialism is not possible save by a victorious revolution. The chapter focuses on two deviations into which the militant workers in these lands are liable to stray, and against which it is essential to fight with the utmost resolution if genuinely revolutionary troops are to be created. First of all, the revolutionary possibilities of the nationalist movement for emancipation must not be underestimated. In the second place, the revolutionary possibilities of the nationalist movement for emancipation must not be overestimated, nor must the importance of the alliance between the working class and the revolutionary bourgeoisie against the imperialists be underestimated.
