NOTÍCIAS DA GUERRA POPULAR: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Stalin Archive on 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 Tehran Yalta 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 transition to communist society. These colossal victories would not have been possible without the defeat of the oppositions led by Trotsky and Bukharin who opposed socialist industrialisation and collectivisation. By the time of the 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 a number 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 also begun for volumes 15-17 of the Works of Stalin. This archive represents an attempt 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 who had 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 United States, Volumes 14 to 16 were published in Russian from Stanford based upon the official Soviet publications.

Under Khrushchev and Brezhnev some of the contributions of Stalin bearing upon 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 the editorship of Prof. Richard Kosalapov. With the opening up of the Stalin Archive currently held in the former Central Party Archive of the CPSU a considerable part of the vast body of Stalin's writings are 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 we appeal 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_revdem@rediffmail.com