Liu Xianzhong

(№.4,2016)

Abstract: The theory of national self-determination is the theoretical principle proposed by Russian Social Democratic Labour Party for solving Russia's national problems. In the view of Lenin, the right of national self- determination does not advocate seperation or the establishment of small countries, but expects for free association. In the 1917 revolution, Bolshevik Party just catered to the national requirements through the right of national self- determination and the federal system serving as its form, and re-established the unified Russia on the ruins of Russian Empire, and then established the Soviet Union. The ''withdrawl right'' in the Constitution of the Soviet Union just aimed for gaining the trust of various nations for the federal, consolidating the federal better but not for the real separation. However, the reality did not proceed as Lenin anticipated, and the right of ''withdrawing from the Soviet Union'' offered legal basis for its collapse, which was surely not the real meaning of Lenin.

Keywords:Lenin; right of national self-determination; national problems