Dialectical and Historical Materialism and Other Writings

by Joseph Stalin, Graphyco Editions (Editor), International Publishers (Translator)

This Graphyco edition includes 20 historical and biographical footnotes to make the book an easier read.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin(1878-1953) was a Georgian born in Gori, Russian Empire revolutionary and Soviet politican who became the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from the mid 1920s until his death in 1953. Initially he governed the Soviet Union as part of a collective but throughout the years he consolidated power and became the country’s de facto dictator by the 1930s.

108 pages, Paperback

Published September 7, 2020

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

[sosaspeaks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Drudgery!

The best parts were Marx quotations, so I might as well just read more Marx.
Not interested enough to read "Anarchism or Socialism" from this compilation; even if the philosophical content is decent, I do not enjoy Stalin's style of writing at all.

[Dylan Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stalin so sassy, lmao. Really concise works and incredibly reflexive on the state of true principled Marxists today against Anarchists and the like.