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1 day ago · Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Jugashvili; [g] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
4 days ago · Joseph Stalin, the controversial Soviet leader, wielded absolute power and implemented policies that transformed the USSR into a global superpower while leaving behind a legacy of repression and millions of lives lost.
3 days ago · Stalin, a Georgian, surprisingly turned to “Great Russian” nationalism to strengthen the Soviet regime. During the 1930s and ’40s he promoted certain aspects of Russian history, some Russian national and cultural heroes, and the Russian language, and he held the Russians up as the elder brother for the non-Slavs to emulate.
4 days ago · Joseph Stalin - WWII Leader, Soviet Union, Dictator: During World War II Stalin emerged, after an unpromising start, as the most successful of the supreme leaders thrown up by the belligerent nations.
4 days ago · Stalinism ( Russian: Сталинизм, Stalinizm, Georgian: სტალინიზმი, Stalinizmi) is the totalitarian [1] [2] [3] means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin.
4 days ago · He became one of the Bolsheviks ' chief operatives in the Caucasus, organizing paramilitaries, spreading propaganda, raising money through bank robberies, and kidnappings and extortion. Stalin was captured and exiled to Siberia numerous times, but often escaped.
5 days ago · The political violence of Stalin’s regime reached its peak during the Great Purge of communist officials between 1936 and 1938. In 1941, due to the German invasion of the Soviet Union In the context of the Second World War (1939-1945), Stalin allied himself with the Western powers and led the Soviet military effort against the Axis powers.
