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This book contains a series of articles dating from April of 1924 until March of 1939. The common thread in all the articles in this book is an attempt by Josef V. Stalin to explain "Leninism." The articles in this book cover the period of time during which a titanic struggle was underway among the leaders of the Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union to succeed Vladimir Lenin as the head of the Bolshevik Party and as the head of the Soviet government. Lenin had died in January of 1923. Since that time Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, Gregory Zinoviev, Stalin and others had been maneuvering within the Party to succeed Lenin.
Lenin had been revered in life by the Bolshevik Party and now after his dead Lenin was held in even greater esteem. Accordingly, each person struggling to obtain supreme leadership of the Party and the Soviet State was attempting to show that he was the true intellectual successor to Lenin--that his version of "Leninism" was the most accurate version endorsed by Lenin himself in his writings. This book represents a collection of articles by Joseph Stalin to present his case as to why he was most in line with Lenin's original revolutionary philosophy.
Lenin had been revered in life by the Bolshevik Party and now after his dead Lenin was held in even greater esteem. Accordingly, each person struggling to obtain supreme leadership of the Party and the Soviet State was attempting to show that he was the true intellectual successor to Lenin--that his version of "Leninism" was the most accurate version endorsed by Lenin himself in his writings. This book represents a collection of articles by Joseph Stalin to present his case as to why he was most in line with Lenin's original revolutionary philosophy.