Published in 1938 after many years of efforts by a team of authors, including I.V. Stalin, the textbook on the history of the CPSU (B.) Had a profound impact on Soviet society. He not only determined from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s the content of teaching and the study of the history of the CPSU(b), but also had a direct impact on historical science and historical propaganda in the USSR at that time, since the concept of the historical development of Russia and the Bolshevik party set forth in it went far beyond the actual history of the party and became the standard in covering the national history of the 19th-20th centuries.