Joseph Stalin, quoted in Andrei Zhdanov, "Soviet Literature — The Richest in Ideas, the Most Advanced Literature" (August 1934), at the First Congress of Soviet Writers. Speech in Maxim Gorky et al., Soviet Writers' Congress 1934 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977), pp. 15–26

Writers are engineers of human souls.

— Joseph Stalin on Authors

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Joseph Stalin

About Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 21 December {9 December Old Style} 1879 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism. He was the father of Svetlana Alliluyeva.