Essential Works

by Joseph Stalin, Salil Sen (Translator), Carl Kavanagh (Translator)

What can be said about this man which has not already been said? Demonized by his enemies, beloved by his supporters, the self titled Man of Steel shaped the 20th Century like none other. Who would have thought at the turn of the 20th century that the son of a shoemaker, trained for the priesthood, would oversee a global superpower the likes of which the world had never seen? Upon his death in 1953, we find a body of work spanning many volumes. This is a collection of those pieces which have stood as some of his most influential. From his lecture on Leninism to his discussion on linguistics, Stalin wrote a volume of work rivalled by few others. From Dialectical and Historical Materialism to Anarchism or Socialism, Joseph Stalin wrote in a manner which made complex subjects easier for the common person to understand. Whatever else is written or said about the man, Stalin was the man who like none other stood for the 20th Century. Only by better understanding his own words can we fully grasp the weight of the era. Works Anarchism or Socialism? Marxism and the National Question Concerning Questions of Leninism Dialectical and Historical Materialism Marxism and the Problem of Linguistics Economic Problems of the USSR

222 pages, Paperback

Published December 19, 2017

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.