The Proletarian Class and the Proletarian Party

by Joseph Stalin, Tim Newcomb (translator)

A new translation from the original Russian manuscript with a new afterword by the translator and a timeline of Stalin's life and works.

"Armed Insurrection and our Tactics" was published in 1905, at a time when Russia was undergoing major uprisings. Here Stalin dissects the mechanics of armed insurrection and advocates for genocide against the "enemies of progress" and the fascists. This piece foreshadows tactics that would be used during the violent October Revolution of 1917, which would kill tens of thousands of innocents and lead to Stalin's implementation as dictator.

94 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2023

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

[ash estep · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is good, it’s well written and makes several good points, and shows Stalin before he fell to opportunism, truly a very good if not for how he double backed on almost every point