J. V. Stalin
Source: Works, Vol. 1,
November 1901 - April 1907
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow,
1954
Transcription/Markup: Salil Sen for MIA, 2008
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Volume 1 includes the works of J. V. Stalin written from 1901 to April 1907, the period when he conducted his revolutionary activities mainly in Tiflis.
In this period the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of V. I. Lenin, were laying the foundations of the Marxist-Leninist Party, of its ideology and principles of organisation.
In this period Comrade Stalin, combating various anti-Marxist and opportunist trends, created Leninist-Iskra Bolshevik organisations in Transcaucasia and directed their activities. In his works he substantiated and vindicated the fundamental principles of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine.
Only a small part of J. V. Stalin’s works included in Volume 1 were published in Russian. Most of them were published in Georgian newspapers and pamphlets. The majority of these appear in Russian for the first time.
The archives of the Caucasian Union Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, and some of the publications issued by the Transcaucasian Bolshevik organisations, in which works of J. V. Stalin were published, have not been found to this day. In particular, the Programme of Studies for Marxist Workers’ Circles (1898) and Credo (1904) are still missing.
Volume 1 of the present edition does not contain all the works of J. V. Stalin written from 1901 to April 1907.
Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of the C.P., C.P.S.U.(B.)