A new translation from the original Russian manuscript with a new afterword by the translator and a timeline of Stalin's life and works of Stalin's 1901 Russian Social Democratic Party and its immediate tasks (Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия и ее непосредственные задачи).

Stalin's youthful work, written while he was in college, reveals his evolving thought on party organization and political strategy. He emphasizes the importance of a cohesive socialist movement against tsarist Russia. It's an insight into Stalin's formative years as a revolutionary, even before the major splits in the socialist movement.