Joseph Stalin
Born Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878 – 1953), Stalin was the first General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. He assumed a lead role in Soviet politics following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924.
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AnoviaSome of these answers are very good. Some are wildly inaccurate. I don't want to even attempt to become the "dictator expert" so...
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Joseph Stalin (Ioseb Dzhughashvili 1878-1953) was the leader of the USSR (Russia) from 1924 to 1953. After World War 2, he wanted...
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The official cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage.[Improve Answer: ] On his death certificate, the cause of death is stated as...
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Hitler believed his propaganda and thought that he had some sort of ordained right as a German to do what he did. He lacked the...
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The most widely accepted figure is around 20 million. See related links below. But there is no argument, both Hitler and Stalin...
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Stalin was a paranoid leader! He had the power over russia for 29 year. He ruled his country by manipulating the citizens with...
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Joseph Stalin wanted to regain Russia's (USSR) land that was lost in the previous World War I, (The Great War) basically wanted...
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He thought the Jews were a threat to his power.
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At least 9.5 million more deported, exiled or imprisoned in work camps, with many of the estimated five million sent to the...
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In Russian the word Stalin means "Man of Steel". He did it to improve his image. In addition, his true last name, Dzhughashvili,...
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Yes, Stalin especially wanted no one to critize his government and he even had artists censor out what he thought was harmful to...
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Stalin was imprisoned and exiled several time in his life. He was arrested and jailed outside Baku in Bailov Prison in March...
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If you are reffering to during WW2, if was simply because they were on the same side. They were fighting the same enemy and the...
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AnswerEngland, United States, China, France, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Mexico, the...
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Not all of them. Some, who were opponents of earlier communist regimes did, but others viewed him as a tyrant. Others thought...
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Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Tiflis, which was part of the Russian Empire (now Republic of Georgia).
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He wasn't afraid of Stalin. Lenin could have easily had Stalin executed anytime from 1917 through his death. Lenin believed,...
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Gulag- GU implying Criminal police- and the Germanic Lag- for camp- were prison camps in remote areas- they were certainly not...
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Lavrenty Beria, Joseph Stalin's hatchetman, tried for treason, found guilty and executed on December 23, 1953, several months...
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Russians often rather adored Stalin. He was pictured as the grand leader of the Revolution, and the father of the government that...
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Josip Stalin At first, Joseph Stalin, Grigori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev led the USSR as a troika in the Politburo of the Central...
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Joseph/Josef Stalin was the leader of Russia (actually the Soviet Union or USSR). He ruled until 1953 when he died under strange...
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They believed in Lenin more, though Stalin was his successor. They believed in Stalin because Stalin promised the proletariats...
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Gregory and Stalin are two separate people. Joseph Stalin was the ruthless leader of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. Paul...
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Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1878.
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Absolute fear. He fostered a ever-present fear that you could be made to dis-appear in the middle of the night on nothing more...
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While Lenin was disabled from strokes, Joseph Stalin, Grigori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev ran the country through the structure of...
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The beginning of the Cold War could be traced back to Churchill's use of the term "Iron Curtain", on 3 May 1946. This came to...
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To the lower class, he presented himself as a man of the people. He promised changed and gave people hope in a better life...
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AnswerJosef Visarionovich Stalin He was the Leader of the USSR. He was responsible for the Germans to start Falling back in the...
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AnswerStalin was the leader of Russia and a communist.Hitler was a nazi and hated communists (even though they had some shared...
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Hitler and Stalin Hitler's father was a cruel angry man who beat Adolph regularly. At the age of 10 Adolph was in a coma for a...
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Equally non-liberal brutal dictators. Whoa whoa whoa. Stalin was communist. While he enforced his doctrines in ways that are...
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A policy he instituted was atheism. He supported communism and collectivism.
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Based on his speech at 1937 in Bolshoi Theatre, Stalin said that the intelligentsia class were necessary to help him fulfill...
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Stalin wrote a book entitled: "The History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) - Short Course" It was required reading...
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STALIN IN WWII He was the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR. A more pointed opinion: He was a good...
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Defeating the German Nazi Regime undoubtefully would be his biggest accomplishement. The country went through massive sieges to...
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Stalin and the USThe Soviet Union never went to war against the US. (I hope you're not confusing him with Hitler).They indirectly...
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Yes, Stalin did die of a stroke, a cerebral hemorrhage, but whether it was by natural causes or murder is debatable. Traces of...
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Leon Trotsky, along with Vladimir Lenin, was one of the founders of the Bolshevik Revolution and as such, he was one of the few...
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It is Germany, Japan, Italy,the U.S.A., France, Britain, and Canada, Russia were the main countries [note the Japanese were...
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His ruling style was communist. Communists typically are not elected or do have elections but no not allow others onto the...
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1929 was the year that Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union.
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Stalin had no date of assummed complete power, so this is impossible to say for absolute sure. But it was around 25 years.
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Modernize and industrialize the Soviet Union.
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Their main disagreeance was the difference in government style (Communist vs. Fascist).
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AnswerStalin realized that his country was going no where unless it industrialized. And that is just what he did, he made over...
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By "important" I will take the question to refer to something both important and beneficial to the world. About the only item...
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many died because of starvation.
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AnswerJoseph Stalin's government was a left-wing government known specifically as a Communist government, however he was an...
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Jughashvili meant "Son of Jew" while Stalin meant "steel" he did not change his first name as the English name Joseph in Georgian...
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It was very mixed. Some listened and supported him, while others hated him and listened only because of his cruel tactics.
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Joseph Stalin used his power to gain absolute control. He used the military as a threatening force against the people to...
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1 The Five-Year Plan was a road map for Stalin's great goals of industrialization. The industrial output of the Soviet Union...
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Stalin did not "take over" the Soviet Union on any particular date. It was a gradual process over many years. This is because the...
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Being quite a philosophical person, he was very interested in history at that time, and read books very often, sometimes daily....
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Stalin was on the wanted list of both the Tsarist police and secret police several times for escaping from his exile locations...
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AnswerStalin-Communism Mussolini-Fascist Hitler-NazimThey were very different in their ideas of running a country, but yet very...
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David Gonzalez & Imran Zakehev
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Stalin had little to do with the actual take over of the government by Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks. At the time he was...
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In Stalin's youth, he was a Christian Orthodox, and even aspired to be a preacher at a time. However, his opinions changed and...
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Stalin said the Marshall Plan was just a capitalist ploy to bring down Soviet socialism in general and Communist Party rule in...
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He greatly affected history for the USSR, employing many tactics of communism of maintaining order and power by use of extreme...
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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."-Some old guy somewhere The U.S. along with Britain were not left with many choices at...
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Very little.Joseph Stalin died in 1953. The Cold War was barely started at the time. However, he was ruler during the Korean War,...
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AnswerYes, Stalin said "You know, they are fooling us, there is no God...all this talk about God is sheer nonsense" in E....
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Stalin's impact on Russia can be divided into 5 sections, economy, culture, nationality, the outside world and terror....
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Joseph Stalin was the so-called "Man of Steel." He created the name for himself from the Russian word "stal" for "steel."
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He was applying, with ruthless ferocity, Lenin's idea that by terrorizing the population they would be rendered obedient....
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Yes Stalin was a dictator. After the revolution the USSR was a democratic communist state but the elite took control of the...
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To have fun in candy land
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Stalin is responsible for the death of 17 million Russians. Hitler is responsible for the death of 12 million people in both...
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Fear, and appealling to large quantities of people at the loss of the minority.
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Lenin was not known as "the man of steel." Joseph Stalin was known as that. He adopted the name "Stalin" from the Russian word...
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Stalin had no view on the Berlin Wall as he died more than 8 years before it was built.
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Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953; which is a span of 25 years.
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11 million at least
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Joseph Stallin- While joined with the Allied Forces, Stalin improved the economy, made many allies and portrayed dictatorship.
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Stalin used a variety of methods to purge the party: 1. His secret police (NKVD) arrested suspected "traitors to the party" 2....
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Mostly murder and genocide. As much if not more than Hitler.Prior to the Russian Revolution in 1917, Stalin organized and...
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Stalin seemed to have just agreed with the communist ideals. He was a classical communist by what he considered values and his...
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He killed many people. He was a dictator!
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He was killed on August 21, 1940 with an ice axe.After Vladimir Lenin died, Trotsky became involved in a rivalry for power with...
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Leon Trotsky died when an assassinator drove an ice pick into his head. He died August 21st 1940 at the age of 60 in Mexico
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He defeated Hitler and the Nazis, he made the country of poor peasant farmers into one of industrial manufacturing. He also...
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It was to industiralized the Soviet Union and create jobs. It was an outstanding success, completed in just four years and...
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his favorite thing to do was kill people.
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Yes he did, but he didn't do his final exams as he was expelled in 1899 due to failure to pay the tuition fees. He also had a...
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Stalin Stalin is buried in Moscow in a rather nondescript place near the Kremlin wall. At first it had been buried in the...
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Stalin was born in Georgia, in the small town of Gori. Georgia is located south of Russia.
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Stalin refused to take advice from others and ruled as a dictator, always believing his own way was best.
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I partialy quote from Caroline Johnson, Foothill College: "It was Stalin's plan to claim neutrality. His idea was that if all...
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He wanted to prevent an invasion.
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Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union prior to World War II. He initially supported the Axis powers, but when...
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