Written by Josef Stalin
ISBN-13: 9798182841177 (Softcover)
ISBN-13: 9798182841283 (Hardcover)
338 pages
Publication Date: 13 November 2026
Part of The Collected Works of Josef Stalin
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The Collected Works of Stalin Volume 8 covers the period of January–November 1926, the majority of a year in which Stalin further consolidated Leninism with a strong theoretical defense, against the “United Opposition" bloc, led by Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev, through texts such as ‘Concerning Questions of Leninism’, ‘The Opposition Bloc in the C.P.S.U.(B.)’. Stalin’s interventions argued for the necessity of ideological and organizational unity of the party, under conditions of capitalist encirclement, against the “capitulationist” line of the Opposition.
This volume also further covers the ongoing and expanding process of socialist industrialization, including the importance of a strong worker-peasant alliance, and the necessity of “socialist accumulation”, covered in the report “The Economic Situation of the Soviet Union and the Policy of the Party.”
International questions are also considered, with contemporaneous analysis on the 1926 General Strike in Britain, the coup d’etat in Poland of the same year, and the burgeoning revolutionary situation in China.
Stalin’s Works are an essential resource for activists, scholars, and anyone involved in history of the communist movement. Through engaging with the real history of the 20th Century, readers can adapt and apply historical lessons to contemporary situations. Volume 8 asks important questions regarding the practice of building socialism, and what appropriate praxis looks like within the organization working towards that end.
Written by Josef Stalin
ISBN-13: 9798182841177 (Softcover)
ISBN-13: 9798182841283 (Hardcover)
338 pages
Publication Date: 13 November 2026
Part of The Collected Works of Josef Stalin
—
The Collected Works of Stalin Volume 8 covers the period of January–November 1926, the majority of a year in which Stalin further consolidated Leninism with a strong theoretical defense, against the “United Opposition" bloc, led by Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev, through texts such as ‘Concerning Questions of Leninism’, ‘The Opposition Bloc in the C.P.S.U.(B.)’. Stalin’s interventions argued for the necessity of ideological and organizational unity of the party, under conditions of capitalist encirclement, against the “capitulationist” line of the Opposition.
This volume also further covers the ongoing and expanding process of socialist industrialization, including the importance of a strong worker-peasant alliance, and the necessity of “socialist accumulation”, covered in the report “The Economic Situation of the Soviet Union and the Policy of the Party.”
International questions are also considered, with contemporaneous analysis on the 1926 General Strike in Britain, the coup d’etat in Poland of the same year, and the burgeoning revolutionary situation in China.
Stalin’s Works are an essential resource for activists, scholars, and anyone involved in history of the communist movement. Through engaging with the real history of the 20th Century, readers can adapt and apply historical lessons to contemporary situations. Volume 8 asks important questions regarding the practice of building socialism, and what appropriate praxis looks like within the organization working towards that end.
