Leninism. By Joseph Stalin. (Lawrence and Wishart. 7s. 6c1.)
IN 1924 Stalin delivered a series of lectures at Sverdlovit University under the title Problems of Leninism, in which amogf other things he followed current orthodoxy by deriding the Ella! of "socialism in a single country." After the defeat of Trots11 and his adherents Stalin, anxious to justify his leadership bY publication which could be hailed as a contribution to Bolshe° (Continued on page too) doctrine, re-issued these lectures with the excision of the attack on "socialism in a single country" and with the addition of a few of his later official pronouncements. This volume has since gone through a large number of editions, later speeches and interviews being added from time to time and some of the earlier ones removed. It was translated into English some ten years ago in its then form in two volumes. The present translation in one volume and at a cheaper price has been made from the eleventh Russian edition published in 1939. The two most notable additions to the previous version, though both of them have already appeared in English as pamphlets, are Stalin's speech at the inauguration of the famous " democratic " constitu- tion of 1936 and his most recent important speech at the Party Congress of March, 1939, when Germany, Italy and Japan could still be referred to as "the three aggressor States."
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