Editing Joseph Stalin (section)

=== Marxism and the National Question ===
		
Lenin repeatedly praised Stalin, who became his pupil in Marxism.<ref name=":0">Bill Bland, "Lenin's Testament".https://marxists.info/archive/bland/1991/x01/lenins-testament.pdf</ref> Stalin met Lenin in Krakow, Poland in 1912 to write Marxism and the National Question; he then went to Vienna.<ref name=":1">Wikipedia [[wikipedia:Marxism_and_the_National_Question|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism_and_the_National_Question#Authorship_controversy]]</ref> 

In 1913, Lenin praised Stalin to Maxim Gorky as "a marvelous Georgian who has sat down to write a big article."<ref name=":0" /> Stalin soon completed Marxism and the National Question<ref>Joseph Stalin, Marxism and the National Question. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm</ref>, a strong Leninist work. Lenin said it took the "most prominent place" in dealing with "the situation and fundamentals of a national program for [Bolshevik] Social-Democracy."<ref name=":0" />

Even Trotsky, who hated Stalin, was forced to praise the work. Trotsky claimed that Lenin ghostwrote the work. However, even bourgeois historians (Robert McNeal, Robert Tucker and Ronald Grigor Suny) admit it was mainly written by Stalin and Trotsky was being "ungenerous".<ref name=":1" />