This edition of the English translation of J. V. Stalins Works has been reproduced faithfully from the text of the Englishbased on the Russian editionprepared by the MarxEngelsLenin Institute of the Central Committee C.P.S.U.Iskra Books the imprint of the Center for Communist Studies has chosen to publish the full series of the Collected Works 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 Centurys most impactful socialist heads of state.ampampampnbspStalins Works are both pedagogically accessible and theoretically important and deserve to be studied not only as worldhistorical and practical applications of the development of MarxistLeninist political theory butespecially in an era where the rise of hegemonic imperialism and the decay of capitalism lead to an increasing global fascismalso as politicaltheoretical texts in their own right as the core theoretical works underpinning extant socialist state governance policy legislation and practice.