There are countless works on Stalin's life and activities as a politician, but "Stalin and literature" is still a new topic. This book is a monograph on the study of Stalin's literary thoughts and literary activities. The content includes: Stalin's literary thoughts, that is, the formation and development of Stalin's literary thoughts and the main discussions on literature; Stalin's leadership activities in literature, including the process of formulating and implementing various literary policies and his comments on some literary works; Stalin's relationship with writers, including Stalin's interactions with the older generation of writers and poets, his contact with the new generation of writers who grew up in the Soviet era, and his attitude towards "fellow traveler" writers, etc. This book extensively collects various published documents and memoirs of his contemporaries, analyzes Stalin's literary thoughts and opinions from a Marxist perspective, examines Stalin's literary activities as an integral part of all his activities, adopts a pragmatic and fact-based attitude, fully affirms his achievements, and does not avoid his mistakes, striving to be consistent with historical reality.
