{"product_id":"collected-works-of-josef-stalin-9781088000359","title":"Collected Works of Josef Stalin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of the English translation of J. V. Stalin''s \u003cem\u003eWorks\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eIskra Books\u003c\/em\u003e, the imprint of the \u003cem\u003eCenter for Communist Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, has chosen to publish the full series of the \u003cem\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eWorks\u003c\/em\u003e 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 an era where the rise of hegemonic imperialism and the decay of capitalism lead to an increasing global fascism - also as political-theoretical texts in their own right; as the core theoretical works underpinning extant socialist state governance, policy, legislation, and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IngramSpark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084507148631,"sku":"9781088000359","price":16.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781088000359.jpg?v=1762206622","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/collected-works-of-josef-stalin-9781088000359","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}