The Road to Power

by Joseph Stalin

CONTENTS Introduction The Political Situation Replies to Questions Speech in Reply to Debate Reply to Preobrazhensky on Point 9 of the Resolution "On the Political Situation" Election Day We Demand! The Second Wave All Power to the Soviets A Government of the Bourgeois Dictatorship The Counter-Revolution is Mobilising - Prepare to Resist! Soviet Power An Examination in Insolence Speech at the Meeting of the Central Committee, October 29, 1917 What do we Need?

52 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

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

[Anirudh Sharma]

Nice book

[Steven Godin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, not enjoyable. Great for a history lesson.

[Yasiru]

The author's appalling behaviour, though I am aware it is condoned by Goodreads through silencing criticism in the very spirit of the author, cannot go without remark.

I suggest Goodreads extend its new imbecilic policy to ban Animal Farm from the site along with reviews like this one, since Orwell's fable is well-established as indicting the actions of the present author, Mr Stalin, friend of Goodreads, through satire.

There are, I am sure, many other works to which the same standards the Goodreads staff expect of users on their site must be applied. I expect a drastically cleaned up and reduced database very soon. Of course, do free to delete without notice any reviews or content associated with problematic works.

[Voyager · Rating 5 out of 5]

A short collection of articles and speeches by Stalin on the eve of the Great October Bolshevik Revolution dealing primarily with the bourgeois dictatorship that replaced the tsar led by Kerensky, the attempted coup of Kornilov and the reactionary officers in the military, and the ultimate assumption of power by the Soviets.

Of course, all the works contained here are also readily found with many other materials from the author in the Collected Works of Stalin, unfortunately long out of print but still freely accessible online. But for a beginner in the study of the history of the Great October Bolshevik Revolution and the Bolshevik Party or someone wanting a quick refresher of the exact words of Stalin and the line of the Bolshevik Party during that time, this collection (alongside the History of the CPSU(B) Short Course) offers an excellent choice.