Collected Works of Josef Stalin

<p>This edition of the English translation of J. V. Stalin's <em>Works</em> has been reproduced faithfully from the text of the English-based on the Russian edition-prepared by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of the Central Committee C.P.S.U. <em>Iskra Books</em> the imprint of the <em>Center for Communist Studies</em> has chosen to publish the full series of the <em>Collected Works</em> due to an academic scarcity of the materials an increasing inaccessibility of used copies of the original Foreign Languages Publishing House editions of the 1950s and a growing scholarly and practical interest in the writings and ideas of one of the Twentieth Century's most impactful socialist heads of state. Stalin's <em>Works</em> are both pedagogically accessible and theoretically important and they deserve to be studied not only as world-historical and practical applications of the development of Marxist-Leninist political theory but - especially in an era where the rise of hegemonic imperialism and the decay of capitalism lead to an increasing global fascism - also as political-theoretical texts in their own right; as the core theoretical works underpinning extant socialist state governance policy legislation and practice.</p>