On the Problems of Leninism
 Title page of the first edition of K voprosam leninizma | |
| Author | Joseph Stalin |
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| Original title | К вопросам ленинизма |
| Language | Russian |
| Publication date | 1926 |
| Publication place | Soviet Union |
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- This is about the 1926 book introduction, reprinted as a pamphlet. For the Joseph Stalin Selected Works volume, see Joseph Stalin bibliography
On the Problems of Leninism (Russian: К вопросам ленинизма, K voprosam leninizma) was a short book by Joseph Stalin, dated January 1926 and part of the debate among the political leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to define and delineate so-called "Leninism" following the death of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in January 1924. Written after the removal of Leon Trotsky as head of the Red Army, the work is a polemic against Leningrad party boss and president of the Communist International Grigory Zinoviev.
The essay first appeared in 1926 as the introductory lead item in the first edition of Problems of Leninism (Russian: Вопросы ленинизма, Voprosy leninizma), an assortment of Stalin's selected works that would evolve as the standard international collection of his writings. It appeared under separate covers early in 1926 and remained constantly in print throughout Stalin's reign as one of the Soviet leader's important theoretical works.
In this work Stalin identifies the Communist Party as the "main guiding force within the system of the dictatorship of the proletariat" and reaffirms the "possibility" of achieving socialist construction in one country alone through the control of state power by the working class and its vanguard party.