Collected Works. Volume 8

Works #8

by Joseph Stalin

Collected Works Volume 8 Russian Edition

420 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2013

About the author

Joseph Stalin, originally Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, was a Soviet revolutionary, politician and statesman who became the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953).

Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become an informal dictator by the 1930s. Ideologically adhering to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, he formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are called Stalinism.

Reviews

[Voyager · Rating 5 out of 5]

The eighth volume of the collected works of Stalin deals most predominantly with the issue of the Trotskyite opposition in the Bolshevik Party. Featured in this volume is Stalin's indispensable work Concerning Questions of Leninism which totally refutes the Trotskyite distortions against the construction of socialism in one country, defending the teachings of Lenin and Leninism as outlined in Stalin's work The Foundations of Leninism. Also included are a few of Stalin's articles and speeches against the opposition in the CPSU(B), addressing many of the same problems dealt with in Concerning Questions of Leninism. Apart from this important defence of the theory of Leninism, the reader will find an excellent article dealing with problems of industrialisation in the USSR, the labour movement in Britain, and the revolution in China, all of which still have relevance for communists today.