1939 Foundations of Leninism , Joseph Stalin Vladimir Lenin Communism Socialism

Description: Foundations of Leninism By Joseph Stalin A New Translation International Publishers, New York 1939 Stapled paper wraps. 5 3/8" x 7 3/4" 127 pages. Foundations of Leninism is a collection of nine lectures made by Joseph Stalin at Sverdlov University in 1924. It was first published by the Soviet newspaper, Pravda. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878 -1953), Soviet politician , revolutionary , and the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, Stalin consolidated his power within the party and state to become a dictator by the 1930s. Ideologically, he formalised his Leninist interpretation of Marxism as Marxism-Leninism, while the totalitarian political system which he established is known as Stalinism. Vladimir Lenin died in January of 1924, and a power struggle began among factions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin quickly allied himself with fellow Soviet politicians Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. " Foundations of Leninism " contains the written text of nine lectures Stalin delivered to trainee party activists at Sverdlov Communist University, and was the first work produced by Stalin since the 1917 October Revolution. Stalin's nine lectures cover the historical roots of Leninism, methods, theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the peasant question, the national question, strategy and tactics (two lectures), and style of work. Bolshevik Leon Trotsky ( revolutionary socialist who led the leftist opposition to Stalin ) referred to the lectures as "ideological garbage", characterizing them as part of as a propaganda campaign by Grigory Zinoviev, Nikolai Bukharin, and Lev Kamenev. It has been noted that Foundations of Leninism contributed to Stalin's developing synthesis of Marxism with Russian nationalism in the form of social patriotism. African American civil rights activist and Soviet politburo member Harry Haywood (1898-1985) received Foundations of Leninism extremely positively, particularly praising Stalin's theories on the nature of imperialism in relation to Jim Crow and slavery. Marxist-Leninist states are marked by a high degree of centralised control by the state and Communist party, political repression, state atheism, collectivisation and use of labour camps, as well as free universal education and healthcare, low unemployment and lower prices for certain goods. -------- Condition. Binding wear, some loss of paper on the spine. ( see the photos ) A very few instances of pencil text underlining. Otherwise good. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

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