National question

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title: "National question" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["national-questions"] description: "Concepts related to nationalism" topic_path: "general/national-questions" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_question" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Concepts related to nationalism ::

National question is a term used for a variety of issues related to nationalism. It is seen especially often in socialist thought and doctrine.

In socialism

• Social Democracy and the National Question by Vladimir Medem in 1904
• Social Democracy and the Nationalities Question by Otto Bauer in 1907
• The National Question and Autonomy by Rosa Luxemburg in 1909
• Theses on the National Question, writings by Vladimir Lenin in 1913, first published in 1925
• The Problem of Nationalities, Chapter 39 of Leon Trotsky's History of the Russia Revolution Volume 3: The Triumph of the Soviets
• Marxism and the National Question, a 1913 pamphlet by Joseph Stalin on the definition and roles of nations within Marxism
• Zur nationalen Frage in Österreich, a 1937 articles by Alfred Klahr on Austria
• On the Question of Nationalities in Ethiopia by Wallelign Mekonnen in 1969

Other national questions

• Adriatic question
• Albanian question
• Armenian question
• Aromanian question
• Bessarabian question
• Croatian question
• Cyprus question
• Eastern question
  • Greek Project
  • Thracian question
• German question
• Irish question
• Jewish question
• Kaliningrad question
• Karelian question
• Kurdish question
  • Mosul question
• Macedonian question
• Montenegrin question
• Palestinian question
• Polish question
• Quebec national question
• Roman question
• Schleswig-Holstein question
• Serbian question
• Taiwan question
• Ukrainian question, see Little Russia and Russification of Ukraine
• Wendish question
• West Lothian question
• "Question of Western Sahara", the title of two United Nations resolutions:
  • United Nations General Assembly Resolution 34/37
  • United Nations General Assembly Resolution 40/50

References

References

1. [https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm "Rosa Luxemburg, The National Question"].
2. [https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/jun/30.htm "V.I. Lenin, Theses on the National Question (June 1913)"].
3. [https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/ch39.htm "Leon Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution"].

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