Dialectical and Historical Materialism and Other Writings (Graphyco Annotated Edition)

“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” This Graphyco edition includes 20 historical and biographical footnotesto make the book an easier read. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin(1878-1953) was a Georgian born in Gori, Russian Empire revolutionary and Soviet politican who became the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from the mid 1920s until his death in 1953. Initially he governed the Soviet Union as part of a collective but throughout the years he consolidated power and became the country’s de facto dictator by the 1930s.