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,...

Joseph Stalin (1879–1953), born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, was a Georgian peasant by origin who rapidly rose to power in the Bolshevik movement before and after the Russian Revolution. By the early 1920s he was close to the centre of...

Joseph Vissarionovich Jugashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი, Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili; Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли (help·info),...

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,...

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...

You know the drill. Every year it starts a little bit early: the press releases, the articles, the low level buzz—mostly amid the publicists who write the press releases and the reporters who dutifully recap them. Yes, it's Time's 'Person of Year' time again, and...

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, Marsh reviews portrayals of Stalin in Soviet literature written and published during his leadership.

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. "

Essay consists of an evaluation of the domestic policies of Joseph Stalin.

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.