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According to Stalin's secretary, Boris Bazhanov, Stalin was jubilant over Lenin's death while "publicly putting on the mask of grief". [ 186 ] Some Marxist theoreticians have disputed the view that Stalin's dictatorship was a natural outgrowth of the Bolsheviks' actions, as Stalin eliminated most of the original central committee members from ...
1951 postage stamp marking the 15th anniversary of the Soviet Constitution, illustrating the right to recreation. The 1936 Constitution repealed restrictions on voting, abolishing the lishentsy category of people, and added universal direct suffrage and the right to work to rights guaranteed by the previous constitution.
The Law of the Soviet Union was the law as it developed in the Soviet Union (USSR) following the October Revolution of 1917. Modified versions of the Soviet legal system operated in many Communist states following the Second World War—including Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, the Warsaw Pact countries of eastern Europe, Cuba and Vietnam.
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt (2019) Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953 (2006). Seaton, Albert. Stalin as Military Commander, (1998) [ISBN missing] Weeks, Albert L. Assured Victory: How 'Stalin the Great' Won the War But Lost the Peace (ABC-CLIO, 2011).
Marxism and the National Question was not included in any one- or two-volume Russian version of Stalin's Selected Works (Russian: Вопросы Ленинизма, romanized: Voprosy Leninizma, lit. 'Problems of Leninism'), [30] which first appeared in 1926, or in any English-language translation of this book appearing from 1928 to 1954.
There are more than 600 city, local, and exempted village school districts providing K-12 education in Ohio, as well as about four dozen joint vocation school districts which are separate from the K-12 districts. Each city school district, local school district, or exempted village school district is governed by an elected board of education. [12]
On 1 March 1953, Stalin's staff found him semi-conscious on the bedroom floor of his Kuntsevo Dacha. [560] He was moved onto a couch and remained there for three days, [561] during which he was hand-fed using a spoon and given various medicines and injections. [562] Stalin's condition continued to deteriorate, and he died on 5 March. [563]
On 25 February 1956, de-Stalinization became official when he spoke to a closed session of the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, delivering an address laying out some of Stalin's crimes and the "conditions of insecurity, fear, and even desperation" created by Stalin. [1]