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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Fwd: [MLL] Fwd: Stalin Archive now on the Revolutionary Democracy website Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:01:13 +0530 From: Marxist Front <marxistfr...@yahoo.co.in> To: Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired <marxism-tha...@lists.econ.utah.edu> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: editor revdem<editor_rev...@indiatimes.com> To: marxist-leninist-l...@lists.econ.utah.edu Sent: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:07:08 +0530 (IST) Subject: Stalin Archive now on the Revolutionary Democracy website The Revolutionary Democracy website at: www.revolutionarydemocracy.org now includes a Stalin Archive. Just Scroll down the left side of the site. The archive includes so far Volumes 14 to 18 of the Works of Stalin which were published by Red Star Press, London, in the 1970s and 1980s; the Correspondence Between the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Presidents of the USA and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the Minutes of The TehranYalta& Potsdam Conferences. Here is the introductory note to the archive: Stalin was a leading communist revolutionary of the twentieth century whose seminal contribution is increasingly felt in the twenty first century.His name is identified with the construction of socialism in the Soviet Union, the victory over fascism in the Second World War and the transitionto communist society. These colossal victories would not have been possible without the defeat of the oppositions led by Trotsky and Bukharin whoopposed socialist industrialisation and collectivisation. By the time ofthe death of Stalin a large people’s democratic camp had been built up in central and eastern Europe and Asia alongside the USSR. Yet the writings of Stalin are not easy to locate despite the fact that anumber of websites include some of his works. 13 Volumes of the Works were completed in English prior to the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in 1956. The dummy of Volume 14 had been printed prior to this event and the publication of the volume was announced before the Closed Speech. It was not to be printed. The Soviet archives show that preparatory work had alsobegun for volumes 15-17 of the Works of Stalin. This archive represents anattempt to widen the availability of the writings of this classic of Marxism. We begin by reconstituting Volumes 14 to 18 of the Works of Stalin which were published by Red Star Press, London in the 1970s and 1980s. These volumes which are much in demand have been out of print for many years. The Red Star Press compilation drew upon the labours of communists whohad gathered materials for the publication of the Works of Stalin in French and German. Separate from these endeavours communists in Albania and Spain independently compiled volumes 14 in their languages. In the UnitedStates, Volumes 14 to 16 were published in Russian from Stanford basedupon the official Soviet publications. Under Khrushchev and Brezhnev some of the contributions of Stalin bearingupon diplomatic matters were published in the Soviet Union. We are placing a part of these on the web. After the fall of the USSR volumes 14 to 18 have been published in Russian and more are under preparation under theeditorship of Prof. Richard Kosalapov. With the opening up ofthe StalinArchive currently held in the former Central Party Archive of the CPSU aconsiderable part of the vast body of Stalin’s writingsare now available in the public domain. In the near future we plan to put on the web in a chronological form some of Stalin’s writings which are not included in existing collections. This is an international task and weappeal for assistance on this in terms of the location of materials and the translation of Stalin’s writings from the Russian. Those who wish to help in this cause may contact us at: editor_rev...@rediffmail.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
