A tradução do primeiro tomo das Obras Escolhidas de V. I. Lénine em três tomos foi feita segundo a correspondente edição russa, preparada pelo Instituto de Marxismo-Leninismo anexo ao CC do PCUS, com o acréscimo dos artigos: Friedrich Engels, no Tomo I e As Eleições para Assembleia Constituinte e a Ditadura do Proletariado no Tomo III.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), statesman and political theorist. After the October Revolution he served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1924.