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Description
J.V. Stalin’s life and work are generally treated as a phantasm. Instead of going back and looking at the trajectory of his history-making personality in its full development, through the Great October Socialist Revolution, the industrialization and collectivization, his succession of Lenin, the Great Patriotic War, the postwar reconstruction, etc., many self-styled experts who, in fact, know nothing about J.V. Stalin rely on some writer who has sold out his pen and written a million and one slanders. This is done in order to defame him and many of the greatest human accomplishments of his period. Naturally, in taking the initiative to launch a one-volume Selected Works of Stalin, any publisher must necessarily start from those events in his life which are most obscured. It must include his major works — Anarchism or Socialism?, Marxism and the National Question, the Foundations of Leninism, Trotskyism or Leninism?, Concerning Questions of Leninism, On the Right Deviation in the CPSU(B), On the Draft Constitution of the USSR, Dialectical and Historical Materialism, Marxism and Problems of Linguistics, Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, and so on. Such works not only give a view into his thinking, but also serve as a chronology of the events in the USSR and internationally from the early 20th century until his death in 1953. Keeping this in mind, NEPH has chosen additional works which are both useful for our own time and serve to help all in understanding the period in which Stalin lived and worked.
J.V. Stalin’s greatest accolade is his leadership at the head of the Red Army when they smashed the Hitlerite hoards in the Great Patriotic War, and as such included in his Selected Works are his first speech to the Soviet people post-invasion, his two historic speeches in November 1941 in the Mayakovskaya Metro Station and on the Red Square when the nazis were at the gates of Moscow, commemorating the twenty-sixth anniversary of Great October and his Victory Speech. One will see how decisive his leadership was, how he imbued the Soviet peoples and the whole world with hope and pride. Given special priority is the author’s work postwar, which has been obscured for 70 years. Included are some of his discussions with creative intellectuals, his most important letter to the Communist Party of Yugoslavia condemning the treachery of the Tito group, his views on resurging aggressive Anglo-American imperialism, his speech at the 19th Congress of the CPSU, etc.