Selected Works

by Joseph Stalin

Collection in one volume for the first time, these essential works of Joseph V. Stalin include many essays which have long been unavailable. They are regaining the attention they merit as classics of Marxism alongside those of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao Tsetung.

The works cover the following important areas:

· Basic principles of Marxism, e.g.,
Anarchism or Socialism?
· The national question, e.g.,
Marxism and the National Question
The October Revolution and the National Question
· Socialist revolution and socialist construction, e.g.,
Problems of Leninism
The Right Deviation in the CPSU (B)
· Other important topics, e.g.,
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
Questions Concerning the History of Bolshevism

and 11 other selections, nearly 400 pages in all.
With historical and explanatory notes.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History, Philosophy

393 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

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

[Sinan Öner]

What is Leninism? One of the Marxist leaders of 20. Century was the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin tried to describe Leninism in his articles, notes and books. In "Selected Works", we read Joseph Stalin's articles about Leninism, the current questions of the world, the questions of Soviet social development, the history of Soviet Union since 1917 October Revolution, the philosophy of Marxism. Joseph Stalin's "Selected Works" was one of best books about the history of Soviet Union between 1922 and 1953. In "Selected Works", we see Joseph Stalin's thoughts which defined the Soviet Marxism.