One of the last articles Stalin ever read was A. A. Poletaev’s ‚V. I. Lenin and the American Workers Movement‘, published in a 1952 issue of Voprosy Istorii (Questions of History) devoted to Lenin.

Poletaev’s article seems to have been the only one that Stalin read in that issue of the journal and the first passage he marked was a 1907 citation from Lenin on the characteristics of the ‚Anglo-American workers‘ movement‘. There were four, and Stalin, as he often did, went to the trouble of numbering them: the fact that the proletariats of these two countries had no important social-national democratic tasks to fulfil; the complete subordination of the proletariat to bourgeois policy; the sectarianism and isolation of the socialist movement; and the lack of support for the left in elections.

—Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s Library, (London: Yale University Press, 2022), 169-170.