Works. Volume 16. Part 2. January 1949 – February 1953: Joseph Stalin

Sixteen -year collected works by I.V. Stalin turned out to be obviously incomplete. Thirteen volumes came out during the life of the author (1946-1951), and they carried the seal of a thorough and demanding selection of works by himself. Then the publication was struck by the Khrushchev “thaw.” Not yet completed (volume 13 was interrupted in the year 1934), it was discontinued with the death of Joseph Vissarionovich (March 1953); His plan, in general terms, outlined in the preface to the first one (S. VII-VIII), turned out to be unfulfilled, an existing set of scattered. Tom 14-16 appeared four and a half decades later, in a fundamentally different, not predictable in the 50s of the XX century, an era. They were dedicated to the 80th anniversary of October (1997), and the compiler, as a “loner without a motor”, did not have in the mid-90s, that is, at the time of the bizarre flowering of the Yeltsin “demonarchy”, and the thousandths of the opportunities that IMEL once had at his disposal.

Author
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich
Editor
Titov A.I.
Publisher
ITRK, 2011