Ebook: Landmarks in the Life of Stalin

"His history," Henri Barbusse writes, "is one series of victories over a series of colossal difficulties. In all his career since 1917 there is not a single year in which what he has done would not have made another illustrious. He is a man of iron. His name describes him: Stalin — steel. He is as inflexible and as flexible as steel. His power lies in his profound common sense, his extensive range of knowledge, his astonishing internal concentration, his passion for precision, his inexorable consistency, the rapidity, certainty and intensity of his decisions, his perpetual care to select the right man for the right place.

"The dead survive only on earth. Lenin lives where there are revolutionaries. But one may say that in Stalin more than anywhere else live the thoughts and words of Lenin. He is the Lenin of our day...." (Henri Barbusse, Stalin.)