<p>This edition of the English translation of J. V. Stalin''s <em>Works</em> has been reproduced faithfully from the text of the English-based on the Russian edition-prepared by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of the Central Committee, C.P.S.U. <em>Iskra Books</em>, the imprint of the <em>Center for Communist Studies</em>, has chosen to publish the full series of the <em>Collected Works</em> 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 Century''s most impactful socialist heads of state. Stalin''s <em>Works</em> are both pedagogically accessible and theoretically important, and they deserve to be studied not only as world-historical and practical applications of the development of Marxist-Leninist political theory, but - especially in