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V.I. Lenin was a monumental figure in not only the Soviet Union, not only the 20th century, but all of world history. It was his strategic and tactical genius, his penetrating theoretical mind, that led glorious October in overthrowing the bourgeoisie and land-owners from power, the first anywhere in the world. Nor did his mind stop thinking about these problems in some of his darkest personal days. As he could no longer write after his second stroke, he dictated letters and articles giving advice to the Soviet state and party. First of all to be remembered is “On Co-operation”, which had tremendous impacts in guiding the historic collectivization of the countryside and the establishment of socialist relations of production across the whole country. The authenticity of certain documents, especially the “Testament” or “Letter to the Congress” cannot be proven, and some of these letters and articles have been altered later on for political purposes. Therefore, for the first time adjustments have been made in line with Valentin A. Sakharov’s research.
Stalin’s writings on Lenin are plenty, and it would be a folly to attempt to put them all into a small book, but here 7 speeches, interviews and articles have been chosen (originally by Foreign Languages Publishing House) to demonstrate Stalin’s position on the latter’s life and work. They demonstrate who Lenin was, his character, his contributions to scientific communism, his meaning in that time period and what he worked for relentlessly. This from one of his closest comrades, especially in later years when the questions of state policy, how to go over to socialism and manoeuvre in imperialist encirclement, were posed.