Size: 21x15cm./8.2×5.9inch.
Weight: 5000gr./176oz.
Year: 1950
 
These works of Stalin are his thoughts and political ideas written down based on the works of Karl Marx and his friend Lenin (Marxism, Lenism) in order to mobilise the Russian people for his political program.
In the DDR the communistic ruling party, the SED, wanted these works to be translated and published for the German people in 1950. Resulting in the 13 editions of the Stalin Werke. Originally there were 15 parts but after the death of Stalin an because of the rejected Stalin ideology by Khrushchev the 14th. and 15th. edition of the works were put on hold. Eventually parts 14 and 15 (along with parts 16 and 17) were published in West Germany by a communist group.