"His history," Henri Barbusse writes, "is one series of victories over a series of colossal difficulties. In all his career since 1917 there is not a single year in which what he has done would not have made another illustrious. He is a man of iron. His name describes him: Stalin — steel. He is as inflexible and as flexible as steel. His power lies in his profound common sense, his extensive range of knowledge, his astonishing internal concentration, his passion for precision, his inexorable consistency, the rapidity, certainty and intensity of his decisions, his perpetual care to select the right man for the right place.
"The dead survive only on earth. Lenin lives where there are revolutionaries. But one may say that in Stalin more than anywhere else live the thoughts and words of Lenin. He is the Lenin of our day...." (Henri Barbusse, Stalin.)
Author(s): Yemelyan Yaroslavsky
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House
Year: 1940
Language: English
Pages: 174
City: Moscow
Introduction
Chapter 1. Childhood and Youth. First Revolutionary Steps
Chapter 2. Stalin's Early Activities in the Social-Democratic Movement Down to the Second Party Congress
Chapter 3. Activities During the First Russian Revolution
Chapter 4. Activities in the Period of Reaction
Chapter 5. Activities During the Period of Revolutionary Revival and Imperialist War
Chapter 6. Activities in the Period of Preparation for and Achievement of the October Socialist Revolution
Chapter 7. Activities in the Early Period of Soviet Government
Chapter 8. Activities in the Period of Civil War
Chapter 9. Activities During the Transition to the Peaceful Work of Economic Restoration
Chapter 10. The Struggle for the Socialist Industrialization of the Country (1926-1929)
Chapter 11. The Struggle for the Collectivization of Agriculture
Chapter 12. Activities After the Seventeenth Party Congress (1935-1939)
Chapter 13. A Leader of Nations
