Lenin CW-Vol. 23.pdf - From Marx to Mao

STATISTICS AND SOCIOLOGY277was not completed even by “yesterday’s” wars of 1911-12.There is not a single national state like Spain, Sweden,etc., among the small Balkan countries. And in the big East-European states, in all three, the proportion of their“own”, principal nationality is only 43 per cent. More thanhalf the population of each of these three big states, 57 percent, is made up of other nationalities (or, to use the officialRussian term, of “aliens”). Statistically, the differencebetween the West-European and East-European groups ofstates can be expressed as follows:In the first group we have ten homogeneous or near homogeneousnational states with an aggregate population of231 million. There are only two heterogeneous states, butwithout national oppression and with constitutional andfactual equality; their population is 11.5 million.In the second group 6 states, with a population of 23million, are nearly homogeneous; three states, with a populationof 249 million, are heterogeneous or “mixed” andwithout national equality.On the whole, the proportion of the foreign-nationalitypopulation (i.e., not belonging to the principal nation* ofthe given state) is 6 per cent in Western Europe, and 7 percent if we add the United States and Japan. In EasternEurope, on the other hand, the proportion is 53 per cent!**First published in the magazineBolshevik No. 2, 1935Published according tothe manuscript* The Great Russians in Russia, the Germans and Hungarians inAustria, the Turks in Turkey.** The manuscript breaks off here.—Ed.