SOURCE: A review of 'Leninism,' in Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Vol. LII, 1941-42, pp. 118-20.

In the following review, Burns finds the English translation of Stalin's Leninism a valuable source for Westerners studying the socio-political climate of the Soviet Union.

This volume [Leninism] is an authorized translation of the eleventh Russian edition of Problems of Leninism. It contains speeches and articles which were not in the two-volume edition of 1933 or in the volume, also called Leninism, published in 1938. But the more important speeches of Stalin, included in the earlier English editions, are republished here. The speeches and articles included represent the views of Stalin from 1934 to 1939 (March 10). The development of Stalin's views will no doubt continue, but it appears to be an established tradition that whatever changes of policy are adopted by him, or by the Communist party under him, must...