Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia
WEBJoseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [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.
Joseph Stalin | Biography, World War II, Death, & Facts
WEB5 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.
Joseph Stalin: Death, Quotes & Facts - HISTORY
WEBNov 12, 2009 · Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. Through terror, murder, brutality and mass imprisonment, he modernized the Soviet economy.
Joseph Stalin - Facts, Quotes & World War II - Biography
WEBApr 3, 2014 · Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of death and terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism.
Joseph Stalin - WWII Leader, Soviet Union, Dictator | Britannica
WEB5 days ago · As war leader, Stalin maintained close personal control over the Soviet battlefronts, military reserves, and war economy. At first over-inclined to intervene with inept telephoned instructions, as Hitler did, the Soviet generalissimo gradually learned to delegate military decisions.
Joseph Stalin - Soviet Leader, Dictator, Purges | Britannica
WEB5 days ago · Joseph Stalin - Soviet Leader, Dictator, Purges: A politician to the marrow of his bones, Stalin had little private or family life, finding his main relaxation in impromptu buffet suppers, to which he would invite high party officials, generals, visiting foreign potentates, and the like.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin - Encyclopedia.com
WEBJun 27, 2018 · Premier of the Soviet Union. J oseph Stalin was the brutal and absolute leader of the communist Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. By the late 1930s, Stalin staunchly opposed the growth across Europe of the Nazi Party of Germany's Adolf Hitler (1889–1945).
Josef Stalin | Holocaust Encyclopedia
WEBA leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, Josef Stalin (1879-1953) became the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party as well as the head of the Soviet state. Stalin held extraordinary personal power which he used to ruthlessly eliminate his political rivals, including Leon Trotsky.
Joseph Stalin - Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 23, 2018 · Soviet revolutionary and political leader. J oseph Stalin took control of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), the force behind the October revolutions of 1917 that established the Soviet regime.
Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer? - BBC
WEBA timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.
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