The book is devoted to the history of the struggle in the USSR of philosophical schools and the formation of the personality cult of Stalin. Until 1929, the general secretary of the Bolshevik party was considered as a prominent administrator - the practice of building socialism, but not a theorist. To gain full power in the country, Stalin needed to make Soviet society and Soviet science believe that he was also a "classic of Marxism-Leninism," a theorist who knew how to build socialism in the country of the victorious proletariat. The book is intended for specialists, students of humanitarian universities and all those who are interested in the history of Stalinism in the USSR.