The publication includes selected speeches by I.V. Stalin, delivered by him at congresses, plenums, receptions, meetings, meetings and rallies in 1906-1952, as well as lectures on the basics of Leninism, given by him at Sverdlovsk University in 1924. Perhaps readers will be interested in knowing what tasks a person set for the Soviet people, who led our country for almost 30 years and how it all began, when at the dawn of his political career, back in 1906, Stalin spoke at the IV Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in Stockholm.