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[INTERVIEW WITH STALIN] Beseda tovarishcha Stalina s predsedatelem amerikanskogo gazetnogo ob"yedineniya "Skripps-Govard n'yuspeypers" gospodinom Roy Govardom 1-go marta 1936 goda [i.e. Comrade Stalin's Conversation with the Chairman of the American Newspaper Association Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Mr. Roy Howard, March 1, 1936]

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Moscow: Partizdat, 1936. 24 pp.: portr. 13x18.9 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Foxing of the wrappers. Otherwise in a very good condition.

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This is the text of the interview given by Joseph Stalin to Roy Howard (1883-1964), American journalist and the chairman of Scripps Howard Newspapers.
On March 1, 1936, Stalin granted an interview to Roy Horward, which, unlike his earlier exchanges with foreigners, he allowed to be published in mass-circulation newspapers. In the famous interview, the Soviet leader talked about Soviet Union’s relationship with Japan, the inevitability of war, fascism, the importance of Franco-Soviet pact, relations between the USSR and the United States, and the “most democratic constitution in the world” or the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet
Union, which at the time of the interview was in its development stage. The Constitution was adopted on December 6, 1936, and asserted the leading role of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and legally cemented the totalitarian control of the party by General Secretary Joseph Stalin preceding the Great Purge. Interestingly, the next day after the interview, Howard discovered that the conversation had been "edited" by Kremlin authorities. When Stalin saw the original draft, he ordered Howard's version restored.
The brochure contains the text of one of the most famous interviews of the 20th century.

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