Joseph Stalin ( 21 December {9 December Old Style } 1879 - 5 March 1953 ) was Leader of the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953. Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 Misattributed 4 Quotations about Stalin 5 Notes 6 External links // Sourced We think that...
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. During these years he epitomized the totalitarian leader, transforming Soviet society according to his personal wishes and using the state to imprison and kill millions of people so...
The Soviet statesman Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union and the leader of world communism for almost 30 years. Under Joseph Stalin the Soviet Union greatly enlarged its territory, won a war of unprecedented...
Stalin, Joseph HEAD OF STATE OF THE SOVIET UNION 1879–1953 Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born December 21, 1879, to a peasant family in Georgia. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1901 and adopted the name Stalin,...
The US government's Export-Import bank is sustaining the farmlands in Ukraine by allotting farm equipments and subsidizing sales to the Russian Ministry Construction. Such investments of the US in Russia, Ukraine and other Soviet states are usually profitable. In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin...
Richard Lourie. Counterpoint, $25 (320p) ISBN 1-58243-004-7 Chilling and mesmerizing, Lourie's novel traces the Russian dictator's life from childhood to the apex of his career, exploring the diabolical nuances of Stalin's psychology. The USSR dictator narrates, in a grim and relentless voice, often...
Eighteen massive brass bells rescued from a Moscow monastery nearly 80 years ago during a Soviet-era crackdown on religion and donated to Harvard University are being returned to Russia.A delegation from Harvard on Tuesday signed an agreement with officials from the Russian Orthodox Church to...
Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: THE PUTIN TOUCH (The Wall Street Journal, New York) Vladimir Putin paid Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a visit yesterday, the first Russian leader to hit Tehran since Joseph Stalin in 1943. But let's not get too...
In the following interview, Urban discusses with Harriman, who was Franklin Roosevelt's special ambassador to Churchill and Stalin from 1941 to 1946, Stalin's behavior and activities during World War II, particularly his wartime leadership abilities.
In the following essay, Donoso traces Stalin 's place in the development of Soviet philosophy, arguing that his most significant contribution was "his ability to bring theory in line with practice. "
The failure of collectivization in the Soviet Union during the late 1920s and 1930s was the result of Stalin's dictatorial regime. Collectivization failed to create a strong industrial base for Russia and could not support its people; yet the Soviet Union was at the mercy of Stalin, who held sole responsibility for maintaining this policy and did so through his reign of terror against his own people.
Describes the events that led to Joseph Stalin's takeover. Details his participation in the Bolshevik revolution and describes his role during the Purges.
