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Anastas Mikoyan, Joseph Stalin and Grigol Ordzhonikidze in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), in 1925.. The Georgian affair of 1922 (Russian: Грузинское дело) was a political conflict within the Soviet leadership about the way in which social and political transformation was to be achieved in the Georgian SSR.
Stalin's first government was created on 7 May 1941 and was dissolved on 15 March 1946, with the creation of Stalin's second government. It was the government throughout the Great Patriotic War . Ministries
On 1 March 1953, Stalin's staff found him semi-conscious on the bedroom floor of his Kuntsevo Dacha. [561] He was moved onto a couch and remained there for three days, [562] during which he was hand-fed using a spoon and given various medicines and injections. [563] Stalin's condition continued to deteriorate, and he died on 5 March. [564]
In Lenin's first government, Stalin was appointed leader of the People's Commissariat of Nationalities. He also took military positions in the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War . Stalin was one of the Bolsheviks' chief operatives in the Caucasus and grew closer to Lenin, who saw him as tough, loyal, and capable of getting things done ...
The biography delves into Joseph Stalin's formative years, exploring his transformation from a poverty-stricken, idealistic youth to a cunning and formidable figure in Russian history. Suny examines Stalin's early life in the Caucasus, tracing his evolution from a Georgian nationalist to a ruthless political operative within the Bolshevik ...
Georgia was the first non-Baltic republic of the Soviet Union to officially declare independence, [98] with Romania becoming the first country to recognize Georgia in August 1991. [99] On 26 May, Gamsakhurdia was elected president in the first presidential election with 86.5% of the vote on a turnout of over 83%. [100]
Stalin's father, Besarion, was a shoemaker and owned a workshop that at one point employed as many as ten people, [7] but which slid into ruin as Stalin grew up. [8] Beso had specialised in producing traditional Georgian footwear and did not produce the European-style shoes that were becoming increasingly fashionable. [3]
In 1932, he published, in German, his memoirs, Stalin und die Tragödie Georgiens ("Stalin and the Tragedy of Georgia"). Published in emigration and immune to Soviet censure, the book, although hostile to Stalin, is considered the only independent contemporary account of Stalin's youth and his early years in Georgia, and has proven a vital source for Stalin biographers.