Joseph Stalin
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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) was a Soviet politician, political theorist and revolutionary who led 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). Ideologically adhering to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, he formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are called Stalinism.
Books
Selected writings
Selected works
O dialekticheskom i istoricheskom materializme
Dialectical and Historical Materialism (Russian: О диалектическом и историческом материализме), by Joseph Stalin, is a central text within the Soviet Union's political theory Marxism–Leninism. The work first appeared as a chapter in the Short History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which drew heavily from the philosophical works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin.It describes the Bolshevik Party's official doctrine on dialectical materialism and historical materialism. (Source: [Wikipedia](
Voprosy leninizma
The foundations and implications of Leninism are large and much debated ideas. These are Joseph Stalin's viewpoints, discussions, and lectures on the subject.
Marxism and linguistics
Contains five letters by Stalin on the subject of language which include criticism of N.Y. Marr, long a dominant figure in the field of linguistics in the U.S.S.R.
A letter to Ivanov
"In January, 1938, Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, received a letter from I.P. Ivanov, a Young Communist League propagandist in the Kursk region. Stalin's reply, dated February 12, was issued to the press. Ivanov's letter and Stalin's answer are published in full in the following pages."--Note.