Stalin, I. V. Marxism and the National-Colonial Question (Marksizm i natsionalno-kolonialnyy vopros), 1937. In Russian

Сталин И. В. Марксизм и национально-колониальный вопрос : Сборник избранных статей и речей. / Ин-т Маркса — Энгельса — Ленина при ЦК ВКП(б).
[Москва] : Партиздат ЦК ВКП(б), 1937.
[4], 232 с. Твердый издательский переплет, обычный формат (23 см).
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Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich. Marxism and the National-Colonial Question: Collection of Selected Articles and Speeches. / Institute of Marx — Engels — Lenin under the Central Committee of the CPSU(b).
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[Moscow]: Partizdat, 1937.
4, 232 pp. Hardcover, ordinary format (23 cm). In Russian.

This 1937 edition is a seminal ideological document of the high Stalinist era, representing the canonical Soviet doctrine on the multi-ethnic structure of the USSR. Published by Partizdat and prepared by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, the volume codifies the theoretical framework that governed the Soviet Union's nationality policy. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1879–1953) was a Soviet state and political figure, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (from 1922), one of the principal theorists and practitioners of Soviet Marxism-Leninism, whose works had a defining influence on the ideology and policies of the USSR in the 1920s–1950s.
An official publication of a collection of I.V. Stalin's key works on the national and colonial question, prepared and published by the Institute of Marx-Engels-Lenin under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1937. The book includes major articles and speeches outlining and justifying the official Soviet policy on nationalities, principles of autonomy and federation, as well as criticism of "great-power chauvinism" and "local nationalism." The edition served as an important ideological and educational manual for party cadres and was the canonical expression of Stalin's interpretation of Marxism in this field.
The core of the collection includes the foundational 1913 essay "Marxism and the National Question," which famously defined a nation as a "historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture." By 1937, during the peak of the Great Purge, the republication of these texts served to reinforce the centralized authority of Moscow over the various Soviet republics and to provide a "scientific" justification for the suppression of any perceived separatist movements.
For historians of the Soviet Union, political scientists, and collectors of Marxist-Leninist literature, this 1937 edition is a vital primary source. It captures the language of Soviet power at a pivotal moment in history, reflecting the transition from revolutionary idealism to the rigid ideological structures of the late 1930s.