This edition of the English translation of J. V. StalinsampnbspWorksampnbsphas 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 theampnbspCenter for Communist Studies has chosen to publish the full series of theampnbspCollected Worksampnbspdue 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.ampnbspStalinsampnbspWorksampnbspare both pedagogically accessible and theoretically important and they deserve to be studied not only as worldhistorical and practical applications of the development of MarxistLeninist 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 politicaltheoretical texts in their own right as the core theoretical works underpinning extant socialist state governance policy legislation and practice.