Includes translation of Lenin's 1916 pamphlet, "Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism," with his 1917 and 1920 prefaces. Reprinted from Marxists Internet Archive, Lenin's selected works, Progress Publishers (1963), vol. 1, pp. 667-766.;Imperialism in the 21st century. Learning from Lenin's 'Imperialism' 100 years later ; From inter-imperialist war to global class war ; The unipolar era of imperialism and its potential undoing ; The social basis for opportunism and for defeating it -- Imperialism : the highest stage of capitalism. Preface ; Preface to the French and German editions ; Concentration of production and monopolies ; Banks and their new role ; Finance capital and the financial oligarchy ; Export of capital ; Division of the world among capitalist associations ; Division of the world among the great powers ; Imperialism as a special stage of capitalism ; Parasitism and decay of capitalism ; Critique of imperialism ; The place of imperialism in history.