Foundations of Leninism

Foundations of Leninism is compiled from a series of lectures delivered by Joseph Stalin at Sverdlov University in 1924, shortly after Lenin's death. Stalin distills Lenin's contributions to Marxism into a unified framework of "Marxism in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution." Covering method, theory, strategy, the national and colonial questions, the peasantry, the Party, and Lenin's distinctive "style of work," the text outlines the principles of revolutionary politics.

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