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Dialectical and historical materialism

by Joseph Stalin

**Dialectical and Historical Materialism** (Russian: О диалектическом и историческом материализме), by Joseph Stalin, is a central text within the Soviet Union's political theory Marxism–Leninism. The work first appeared as a chapter in the Short History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which drew heavily from the philosophical works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin.[1] It describes the Bolshevik Party's official doctrine on dialectical materialism and historical materialism. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_and_Historical_Materialism))

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