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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Dzhugashvili; [g] 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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 behind the scenes. Stalin played a decisive role in engineering the 1921 Red Army invasion of Georgia. His successes in Georgia propelled him into the ranks of the Politburo in late 1921.
Stalin's early policies pushed for rapid industrialisation, nationalisation of private industry [14] and the collectivisation of private plots created under Lenin's New Economic Policy. [15] As leader of the Politburo, Stalin consolidated near-absolute power by 1938 after the Great Purge , a series of campaigns of political murder, repression ...
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Stalin, the Russians, and Their War, 1941–1945. 2004. 315 pp. Feis, Herbert. Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin: The War they waged and the Peace they sought (1953). online free o borrow; Fenby, Jonathan. Alliance: the inside story of how Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill won one war and began another (2015). Hill, Alexander.
Stalin was born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili on 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 [2] [a] in the town of Gori, in what is today the country of Georgia. He was baptised on 29 December [O.S. 17 December] 1878 [3] and christened Ioseb, and known by the diminutive "Soso". [4] [b] [5] His parents were Ekaterine (Keke) and Besarion Jughashvili ...
Articles relating to Stalinism, the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin. Subcategories This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.
Stalin (Radzinsky book) Stalin and His Hangmen; Stalin: A Biography; Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence; Stalin: Breaker of Nations; Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928; Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941