Review on the leader: works of I.V. Stalin through the eyes of the Marxists of the 1920s

The article is devoted to the consideration of critical reviews of Stalin’s publications by Soviet Marxists in the first half of the 1920s. The authors intend to reveal to what extent Stalin’s theoretical views were alien or, on the contrary, organically inherent in the intellectual environment of that period. The researchers analyze reviews in the leading journals of the time, written by thinkers with different political biographies and professional positions. They come to the conclusion that the works of I.V. Stalin were not perceived in the early Soviet period either as «brilliant» or as «revisionist» and did not stand out much against the background of the new cultural landscape.