Asatiani, Levan. The Language and Style of Comrade I. Stalin's Early Works: Stenogram of a Public Lecture Delivered in Tbilisi (Amkhanag I. Stalinis adrindeli nashromebis ena da stili). 1951. In Georgian.

ასათიანი, ლევან. ამხანაგ ი. სტალინის ადრინდელი ნაშრომების ენა და სტილი : თბილისში წაკითხული საჯარო ლექციის სტენოგრამა / საქართველოს სსრ პოლიტიკური და მეცნიერული ცოდნის გამავრცელებელი საზოგადოება.
თბილისი, 1951 (ლ.პ. ბერიას სახ. პოლიგრაფკომბინატი «კომუნისტი»). 22 გვ. ; 21 სმ.
ნაბეჭდი გარეკანი. ტირაჟი 10 000 ც.
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Asatiani, Levan. The Language and Style of Comrade I. Stalin's Early Works: Stenogram of a Public Lecture Delivered in Tbilisi / Georgian SSR Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge.
Tbilisi : [Georgian SSR Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge], 1951 (printed at the L. P. Beria Polygraphic Combine "Komunisti," Tbilisi). 22 pp. ; 21 cm.
Paper wrappers. Print run of 10,000 copies.
Condition good: even age-toning throughout; small notch at upper left corner of front wrapper; block firm; text complete and legible.

A Georgian-language stenogram of a public lecture by Levan Asatiani (1917-1985), a major Georgian literary critic and later one of the most important historians of Georgian classical literature, on the language and style of Joseph Stalin's early journalistic and political writings in Georgian. Published by the Georgian SSR Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge - the Georgian equivalent of the all-Union Znanie Society, which distributed mass political education through public lectures and cheap pamphlet editions - the pamphlet belongs to the enormous wave of Stalinian scholarship generated across the USSR in the years 1950-1953, directly following Stalin's publication in Pravda of "Marxism and Problems of Linguistics" (1950), which transformed questions of language into a major site of political and ideological contest. In Georgia specifically, the analysis of Stalin's early Georgian-language writings carried particular political weight: those texts were composed in Georgian at the turn of the twentieth century, when the young Dzhugashvili was active in the underground socialist movement in Tbilisi and the Caucasus, and their Georgian linguistic features had since become the object of intense local scholarly attention serving the personality cult. The pamphlet was produced at the Polygraphic Combine "Komunisti" named after Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria - then Stalin's Georgian-born security chief and one of the most powerful figures in the Soviet state - who was arrested and shot in December 1953, nine months after Stalin's death, making the printer's attribution itself a vivid document of the Stalinist period's extreme political instability. The survival rate of Stalin cult pamphlets in Georgian (as distinct from Russian) after de-Stalinization is substantially lower than that of Russian-language equivalents, as both official collection and individual owners systematically discarded them during the Khrushchev period.