ABSTRACT
Vladimir Lenin was the first to see, as early as the beginning of the 20th century, the budding national-liberation movement in the East as a new potent force of the world revolutionary process. Therefore, it is quite natural that India, a great Asian country, a country of ancient culture and unusual diversity of sodal conditions, India which had become one of the first victims of colonialism and one of the first to arise for a struggle against the imperialist yoke, attracted Lenin’s attention. Realising fully well the great strength of the Imperialist oppressors of India, Lenin nevertheless confidently prognosticated the ultimate victory of the Indian national-liberation movement even at the time when that movement was just starting. He attached decisive importance to the beginning of awakening among the Indian masses, especially of the working class. In 1917, the world’s first socialist state was set up in Russia, a state which from its very inception began pursuing Lenin’s policy of alliance.
