Foundations of Leninism

Foundations of Leninism

Tenth-anniversary edition (1934)
Author	Joseph Stalin
Original title	Об основах ленинизма
Language	Russian
Genre	Political philosophy
Publisher	Pravda
Publication date	1924
Publication place	Soviet Union
Media type	Print

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Concepts Aggravation of class struggle under socialism Anti-revisionism Collectivization Cult of personality Five-year plans Great Break Korenizatsiia Marxism–Leninism New Soviet man Popular front Self-criticism Socialism in one country Socialist realism Soviet socialist patriotism Stakhanovite Transformation of nature Vanguardism
People Joseph Stalin Yemelyan Yaroslavsky Kliment Voroshilov William Z. Foster Georgi Dimitrov Ernst Thälmann Sergo Ordzhonikidze Valerian Kuybyshev Vyacheslav Molotov Harry Pollitt Bolesław Bierut Mátyás Rákosi Walter Ulbricht Lazar Kaganovich Khorloogiin Choibalsan Andrei Zhdanov Valko Chervenkov Georgy Malenkov Nikos Zachariadis Edward Ochab Enver Hoxha Kim Il Sung Nicolae Ceauşescu Vladimir Kryuchkov Nina Andreyeva Gennady Zyuganov Aleksandr Dugin
Theoretical works Foundations of Leninism The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Dialectical and Historical Materialism Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR Fundamentals of Marxism–Leninism
History Soviet Union 1927–1953 First five-year plan Great Break Collectivisation Industrialisation Great Purge Moscow trials Spanish Civil War World War II Soviet atomic bomb project Greek Civil War Cold War Eastern Bloc Cominform Chinese Communist Revolution First Indochina War Korean War Doctors' plot Death and funeral of Stalin De-Stalinization 20th Congress of the Communist Party Khrushchev Thaw
Parties Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist) All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks Albanian Party of Labour Communist Party of Germany Communist Party of Greece Italian Marxist–Leninist Party CARC Party Communist Party of New Zealand Romanian Communist Party Communist Party of the Russian Federation National Bolshevik Party The Other Russia Stalin Bloc — For the USSR
Related topics Anti-Stalinist left De-Stalinization Rise of Joseph Stalin Stalin and antisemitism Stalin era Stalin Society Stalinist architecture Neo-Stalinism Anti-Soviet agitation Authoritarian socialism Comparison to Nazism Great Purge Hoxhaism Juche Maoism National Bolshevism National communism Patriotism Red fascism Sino-Albanian split Sino–Soviet split Soviet–Albanian split Tito–Stalin split Totalitarianism
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Schools of thought Bolshevism Bordigism Marxism–Leninism Nkrumaism Right communism Trotskyism Workerism
Concepts Anti-imperialism Collective leadership Democratic centralism Dialectical materialism Dual power Labor aristocracy Liquidationism National liberation Proletarian internationalism Revolutionary defeatism Revolutionary situation Self-determination Socialist state Soviet democracy Vanguardism World revolution
People Vladimir Lenin Leon Trotsky Nikolai Bukharin Lev Kamenev Joseph Stalin Grigory Zinoviev Alexei Rykov Andrei Bubnov Grigori Sokolnikov György Lukács Amadeo Bordiga Ho Chi Minh Antonio Gramsci Kwame Nkrumah Antonio Negri
Theoretical works The Development of Capitalism in Russia (1899) What Is to Be Done? (1902) Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1909) Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917) The State and Revolution (1917) The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (1918) "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920) Foundations of Leninism (1924) Leninism: Introduction to the Study of Leninism (1925)
History Russian Social Democratic Labour Party 2nd Congress Prague Conference Bolsheviks RSDLP (Bolsheviks) Russian Revolution February Revolution October Revolution History of Soviet Russia RSFSR Collective leadership Civil War Red Army War communism Red Terror National delimitation Anti-religious campaign New Economic Policy Soviet Union Death and funeral of Lenin Comintern Joseph Stalin's rise to power
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Foundations of Leninism (Russian: Об основах ленинизма, Ob osnovakh leninizma) was a 1924 collection made by Joseph Stalin that consisted of nine lectures he delivered at Sverdlov University that year. It was published by the Soviet newspaper, Pravda.^[1][2]